Family matters: Parental-acquired brain injury and child functioning
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Family matters : Parental-acquired brain injury and child functioning. / Kieffer-Kristensen, Rikke; Siersma, Volkert Dirk; Teasdale, Thomas William.
I: NeuroRehabilitation, Bind 32, Nr. 1, 2013, s. 59-68.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Family matters
T2 - Parental-acquired brain injury and child functioning
AU - Kieffer-Kristensen, Rikke
AU - Siersma, Volkert Dirk
AU - Teasdale, Thomas William
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - OBJECTIVES: To relate illness and family factors to emotional and behavioural problems in school-age children (7–14 yearsold) of parents with acquired brain injury and their healthy spouses.PARTICIPANTS, MATERIALS/METHODS: Members of 35 families in which a parent had been diagnosed with acquiredbrain injury participated. Family and brain injury characteristics were reported by the ill and healthy parents. Children self-reportedpost-traumatic stress symptoms (PSS) using the Child Impact of Events revised (CRIES). Emotional and behavioural problemsamong the children were also identified by the parents using the Achenbach’s Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL).RESULTS: The family stress variables relating to the healthy spouse in all six comparisons were significant (p< = 0.05) or nearlyso (p = 0.07) in each case showing higher scores for spouses to be associated with higher CRIES and CBCL total scores for thechildren. For the adjusted associations, we again found the family stress variables in the healthy spouse to be related to the riskof emotional and behavioral problems in the children.CONCLUSIONS: The present results suggest that in ABI families, the children’s emotional functioning depends upon familyfactors and primarily on the level of parental stress in the healthy parent.
AB - OBJECTIVES: To relate illness and family factors to emotional and behavioural problems in school-age children (7–14 yearsold) of parents with acquired brain injury and their healthy spouses.PARTICIPANTS, MATERIALS/METHODS: Members of 35 families in which a parent had been diagnosed with acquiredbrain injury participated. Family and brain injury characteristics were reported by the ill and healthy parents. Children self-reportedpost-traumatic stress symptoms (PSS) using the Child Impact of Events revised (CRIES). Emotional and behavioural problemsamong the children were also identified by the parents using the Achenbach’s Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL).RESULTS: The family stress variables relating to the healthy spouse in all six comparisons were significant (p< = 0.05) or nearlyso (p = 0.07) in each case showing higher scores for spouses to be associated with higher CRIES and CBCL total scores for thechildren. For the adjusted associations, we again found the family stress variables in the healthy spouse to be related to the riskof emotional and behavioral problems in the children.CONCLUSIONS: The present results suggest that in ABI families, the children’s emotional functioning depends upon familyfactors and primarily on the level of parental stress in the healthy parent.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Family health, parental ABI, child problems, parent’s functioning, illness-related variables
U2 - 10.3233/NRE-130823
DO - 10.3233/NRE-130823
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 23422459
VL - 32
SP - 59
EP - 68
JO - NeuroRehabilitation
JF - NeuroRehabilitation
SN - 1053-8135
IS - 1
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