Mothers’ psychological adaptation to Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophy
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Parental stress in mothers of boys with duchenne muscular dystrophy.
OBJECTIVE To examine parental stress in mothers of boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). METHOD Stress and its predictors were examined in mothers of boys with DMD (n = 112). Comparisons were made with mothers of healthy children (n = 800), children with cerebral palsy (CP; n = 28), siblings of boys with DMD (n = 46), and longitudinally (n = 16). RESULTS The presence of problem child...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Human Genetics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1018-4813,1476-5438
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2015.189