title: Parenting stress in the infant aphakia treatment study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate parenting stress following infants' cataract extraction surgery, and to determine if levels of stress differ between 2 treatments for unilateral congenital cataract in a randomized clinical trial.
  
  
  METHODS
  At surgery, an intraocular lens (IOL) was implanted or children were left aphakic, treated with contact lens (CL). Stress measures were administered 3 months after surgery and at the first visit after the visual acuity (VA) assessment done at 12 months of age.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Caregivers in the IOL group reported higher levels of stress than those in the CL group 3 months after surgery, but there were no group differences in stress scores at the post-VA assessment. Stress scores did not change differentially for participants assigned to IOL versus CL treatments.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Treatment assignment did not have a significant impact on caregiver stress during infancy or on the change in stress during the child's first 2 years of life.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA. mcelano@emory.edu
authors.forename: Marianne
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Celano
authors.forename: Eugenie E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Hartmann
authors.forename: Carolyn D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Drews-Botsch
mesh_terms: D001035:Aphakia / Q000523:psychology / Q000601:surgery*; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002387:Cataract Extraction / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology*; D003261:Contact Lenses / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D019654:Lens Implantation, Intraocular / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology*; D007910:Lenses, Intraocular / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014792:Visual Acuity
keywords: infancy; parent stress; randomized controlled trial