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Published in: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 9/2014

01-09-2014 | Original Contribution

The relationship between behavioural problems in preschool children and parental distress after a paediatric burn event

Authors: Anne Bakker, Peter G. M. van der Heijden, Maarten J. M. van Son, Rens van de Schoot, Els Vandermeulen, Ann Helsen, Nancy E. E. Van Loey

Published in: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | Issue 9/2014

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Abstract

This study examines mother- and father-rated emotional and behaviour problems in and worries about 0- to 5-year-old children at 3 and 12 months after a burn event and the relation with parental distress. Mothers (n = 150) and fathers (n = 125) representing 155 children participated in this study. Child emotional and behaviour problems and parental worries about the child were assessed with the Child Behavior Checklist at both time points. Parents’ level of acute subjective distress was assessed within the first month after the burn event with the Impact of Event Scale. Mothers and fathers held comparable views of their child’s emotional and behaviour problems, which were generally within the normal limits. Parents’ own acute stress reactions were significantly related to parent-rated child behaviour problems at 3 and 12 months postburn. A substantial part of mothers’ and fathers’ worries about the child concerned physical and emotional aspects of the burn trauma, and potential future social problems. Parents with high acute stress scores more often reported burn-related concerns about their child at 3 and 12 months postburn. Health-care professionals should be informed that parents’ distress in the subacute phase of their child’s burn event may be related to subsequent worries about their child and to (parent-observed) child emotional and behaviour problems. The authors recommend a family perspective, with particular attention for the interplay between parents’ distress and parent-reported child behaviour problems and worries, in each phase of paediatric burn care.
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Metadata
Title
The relationship between behavioural problems in preschool children and parental distress after a paediatric burn event
Authors
Anne Bakker
Peter G. M. van der Heijden
Maarten J. M. van Son
Rens van de Schoot
Els Vandermeulen
Ann Helsen
Nancy E. E. Van Loey
Publication date
01-09-2014
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry / Issue 9/2014
Print ISSN: 1018-8827
Electronic ISSN: 1435-165X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-014-0518-y

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