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Post-traumatic stress symptoms in childhood brain tumour survivors and their parents

Child: Care, Health and Development, ISSN: 0305-1862, Vol: 37, Issue: 2, Page: 244-251
2011
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Objectives: This study aimed to investigate post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) in childhood brain tumour survivors and their parents. A further aim was to explore the relationship between objective illness parameters, parent-child interactions, coping styles and PTSS. Methods: A cross-sectional correlational design was employed. Fifty-two childhood brain tumour survivors, aged 8-16, and 52 parents completed a battery of questionnaires designed to assess quality of parent-child interactions, monitoring and blunting attentional coping styles and PTSS. Results: Over one-third (35%) of survivors and 29% of their parents reported severe levels of PTSS (suggestive of post-traumatic stress disorder 'caseness'). Increased parent-child conflict resolution for survivors and number of tumour recurrences for parents independently predicted the variance in PTSS. Conclusions: For a substantial proportion of brain tumour survivors and their parents the process of survivorship is a considerably distressing experience. © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

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