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Identifying children at high somatic risk: possible long‐term effects on the parents’ attitudes toward themselves as parents and toward having more children
Author(s) -
Thelin T.,
McNeil T. F.,
AspegrenJansson E.,
Sveger T.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1985.tb02574.x
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , term (time) , somatic cell , clinical psychology , genetics , biology , gene , physics , quantum mechanics
– Neonatal identification of children at high somatic risk due to inherited α 1 antitrypsin deficiency (ATD) was hypothesized to have had negative long‐term effects on the parents’ attitudes toward themselves as parents and toward having more children. The parents of 61 children with ATD were followed‐up and studied by interviews about 5 years after the child's ATD was identified, and compared with demographically similar parents of 61 control children without ATD. No support was found for the hypothesized negative effects on these parental attitudes.