The effects on siblings in families with a child with chronic fatigue syndrome.
Paediatric CFS/ME is a stressor, which affects not only the sufferer but also the whole family. The sibling bond exerts a great influence on all the children in the family. Healthy siblings are often overlooked as attention is focused on the child with CFS/ME or other chronic illness. Individual children react in different ways to serious illness in another sibling by adopting a variety of coping mechanisms. There is a need for health and education professionals to consider the whole family when caring for and working with a child with CFS/ME.
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D002648:Child; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D015673:Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D010371:Pediatric Nursing; D002666:Psychology, Child; D012657:Self-Help Groups; D012801:Sibling Relations