title: Post-traumatic growth in parents after infants' neonatal intensive care unit hospitalisation.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine the incidence and severity of post-traumatic growth in a group of parents of children hospitalised in the intensive care unit in the past.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  A premature birth or a birth with life-threatening conditions is a traumatic event for the parents and may lead to a number of changes, some of which are positive, known as post-traumatic growth.
  
  
  METHODS
  The survey covered 106 parents of 67 infants aged 3-12 months. An original questionnaire and standardised research tools were used in the study: Impact Event Scale - Revised, Perceived Stress Scale, COPE Inventory: Positive Reinterpretation and Growth, Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations, Post-traumatic Growth Inventory and Parent and Infant Characteristic Questionnaire.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Due to a stepwise backward variables selection, we found three main factors that explain post-traumatic growth: post-traumatic stress symptoms, positive reinterpretation and growth and dichotomic variable infants' survival. This model explained 29% of the post-traumatic growth variation. Similar models that were considered separately for mothers and fathers showed no significantly better properties.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Post-traumatic growth was related to a lesser extent to sociodemographic variables or the stressor itself, and related to a far greater extent to psychological factors.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our study highlights the fact that post-traumatic growth in the parents of neonates hospitalised in the neonatal intensive care units remains under-evaluated.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aftyka
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.
authors.forename: Ilona
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Rozalska-Walaszek
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Mathematics, Lublin University of Technology, Lublin, Poland.
authors.forename: Wojciech
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Rosa
authors.affiliation: Department of Expert Medical Assistance with Emergency Medicine Unit, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.|Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Pediatric University Hospital of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.
authors.forename: Beata
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rybojad
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Neuropsychiatry, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.|Ist Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Early Intervention, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.
authors.forename: Hanna
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Karakuła-Juchnowicz
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature / Q000523:psychology*; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D011044:Poland; D011247:Pregnancy; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000523:psychology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: neonatal intensive care unit; post-traumatic growth; post-traumatic stress disorder; traumatic stress