title: Posttraumatic stress disorder in children affected by sickle-cell disease and their parents.
abstract: Children affected with sickle-cell disease experience painful crises that may be life threatening, or felt as if they were. We evaluated by semistructured interviews and questionnaires the presence of posttraumatic stress disorder in 11 children affected by sickle-cell disease and having suffered at least one hospitalization for a painful crisis, and in their parents (10 mothers, 1 father). Three children (27%) and four parents (40%) were diagnosed with the disorder. It was not correlated to the disease severity but, in parents, to a feeling of powerlessness over the child's illness (P = 0.04).
authors.affiliation: Department of Child Psychiatry, Hopital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hofmann
authors.forename: Mariane
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: de Montalembert
authors.forename: Bérengère
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Beauquier-Maccotta
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: de Villartay
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Golse
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000755:Anemia, Sickle Cell / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002673:Child, Hospitalized / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires