title: The effects of congenital heart disease on cognitive development, illness causality concepts, and vulnerability.
abstract: This study suggests that childhood cardiac illness has a depressive impact on the attainment of conservation tasks, but does not affect illness causality conceptualization. The group of twelve ill children studied appeared to feel somewhat more vulnerable to illness in general, especially when projecting to adult health status, than did a matched group of healthy children.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002667:Child Reactive Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans