Posttraumatic stress disorder in children affected by sickle-cell disease and their parents.
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).
Hofmann
Michel
M
Department of Child Psychiatry, Hopital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France.
de Montalembert
Mariane
M
Beauquier-Maccotta
Bérengère
B
de Villartay
Philippe
P
Golse
Bernard
B
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