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THE EFFECT OF COELIAC DISEASE ON THE MOTHER‐CHILD RELATIONSHIP
Author(s) -
GARDINER A.,
PORTEOUS N.,
WALKERSMITH J. A.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
journal of paediatrics and child health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.631
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1440-1754
pISSN - 1034-4810
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1754.1972.tb01784.x
Subject(s) - irritability , medicine , coeliac disease , anxiety , incidence (geometry) , depression (economics) , disease , pediatrics , psychiatry , physics , optics , economics , macroeconomics
SYNOPSIS The mother‐child relationship was studied in 28 children with coeliac disease. It was found that there was a high incidence of emotional symptoms in these children, namely withdrawal, irritability and ‘clingingness.’Accompanying these symptoms in the children there was a significant disturbance of the mother‐child relationship, with maternal anxiety, maternal depression and maternal preoccupation. These symptoms in the mother and child disappeared or greatly improved once the child had responded to a gluten‐free diet, except when the mother was already emotionally disturbed before the onset of the child's illness.