Open AccessEFFECT OF CBT ON DEPRESSION AMONG PARENTS WITH CHILDREN UNDERGOING COMPLEX CONGENITAL HEART SURGERY & PROLONG ICU STAY
Author(s) -
Bhanu Pratap Singh,
Abhijeet Singh
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of medical and biomedical studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2589-8698
pISSN - 2589-868X
DOI - 10.32553/ijmbs.v5i8.2105
Subject(s) - medicine , stressor , depression (economics) , anxiety , pediatrics , demographics , heart disease , psychiatry , demography , sociology , economics , macroeconomics
Background: Mothers whose children are born with complex congenital heart disease (CCHD) experience stress during their children’s hospitalization in a cardiac intensive care unit (CICU).
Method: This descriptive correlational study included 30 biological mothers of childrens admitted to a PICU who had undergone cardiac surgery for CCHD. Maternal and children demographics and responses to the Parental Stressor Scale: children Hospitalization and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory were collected.
Results: The association between hospital stay and depression was found significant.
Conclusions: Parents feel more stress when the child admission duration is more.
Keywords: PICU., CCHD