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Posttraumatic stress disorder in children affected by sickle‐cell disease and their parents
Author(s) -
Hofmann Michel,
de Montalembert Mariane,
BeauquierMaccotta Bérengère,
de Villartay Philippe,
Golse Bernard
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
american journal of hematology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.456
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1096-8652
pISSN - 0361-8609
DOI - 10.1002/ajh.20722
Subject(s) - posttraumatic stress , disease , medicine , pediatrics , psychiatry , psychology
Children affected with sickle‐cell disease experience painful crises that may be life threatening, or felt as if they were. We evaluated by semistructured interviews and questionnaires the presence of posttraumatic stress disorder in 11 children affected by sickle‐cell disease and having suffered at least one hospitalization for a painful crisis, and in their parents (10 mothers, 1 father). Three children (27%) and four parents (40%) were diagnosed with the disorder. It was not correlated to the disease severity but, in parents, to a feeling of powerlessness over the child's illness ( P = 0.04). Am. J. Hematol., 2006, © 2006 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.