Psychotherapeutic Experiences with Chronically Ill Children and Their Parents

Differential Outcomes of Adolescents with Chronically Ill and Healthy Parents

Approximately 10% of children grow up with a parent who has been diagnosed with a chronic medical condition (CMC) and seem to be at risk for adjustment difficulties. We examined differences in behavioral, psychosocial and academic outcomes between 161 adolescents from 101 families with a chronically ill parent and 112 adolescents from 68 families with healthy parents, accounting for statistical...

Rural Fathers’ Experiences of Loss in Day-to-day Life with Chronically Ill Children

The aim of this qualitative study was to gain insight into the experiences of fathers living with their chronically ill children in rural Australia. Data were collected via unstructured interviews with four fathers. Analysis followed the procedural steps for phenomenological data as outlined by Colaizzi (1978). Fathers described their experience of living with their chronically ill child as bei...

Chronically ill children and fragile families.

Children of chronically ill parents: Relationship between parental multiple sclerosis and childhood developmental health

BACKGROUND Exposure to parental chronic illness is associated with adverse developmental outcomes. OBJECTIVE We examined the association between parental multiple sclerosis (MS) and parental MS-related clinical factors on developmental health. METHODS We conducted a population-based cohort study in British Columbia, Canada, using linked health databases. The outcome was childhood developmen...

Awareness and use of California's Paid Family Leave Insurance among parents of chronically ill children.

CONTEXT In 2004, California's Paid Family Leave Insurance Program (PFLI) became the first state program to provide paid leave to care for an ill family member. OBJECTIVE To assess awareness and use of the program by employed parents of children with special health care needs, a population likely to need leave. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Telephone interviews with successive cohorts of...