Parent health and functioning 13 months after infant or child NICU/PICU death

Pediatrics

Volumn 132, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Youngblut, JoAnne M ^a   Brooten, Dorothy ^a   Cantwell, G Patricia ^b   Del Moral, Teresa ^b   Totapally, Balagangadhar ^c  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child death; Infant death; Nicu; Parent chronic conditions; Parent mental health; Picu

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER DISEASE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PARENTAL STRESS; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; HEALTH STATUS; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MIDDLE AGED; PARENT; PREMATURE MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY, PREMATURE; PARENTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887037909     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2013-1194     Document Type: Article

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