Factors Related to School Absence Among Children With Cardiac Conditions

Impairment and coping in children and adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome: a comparative study with other paediatric disorders

“…They also shared a number of central illness features with CFS. School non‐attendance in CFS was higher than in previous reports of children with chronic paediatric disorders (Fowler, Johnson, Welshimer, Atkinson, & Loda, 1987; Sturge et al, 1997) and emerges as a key feature of the disorder. Together with the reduced socialisation with friends, this represents illness‐specific narrowing of opportunities and potentially an important impediment to the negotiation of the social developmental tasks of adolescence.…”

The course of severe chronic fatigue syndrome in childhood

“…Even after recovery several children were left with residual symptoms and handicap. School absence (mean time off school one year) had been much higher than for most other severe chronic physical disorders of childhood 22,23 .…”

Impact of juvenile idiopathic arthritis on schooling

“…In the study by Sturge et al, a small group of four children (all suffering from the more severe poly illness type) had missed a great deal of schooling (between a quarter and a half of the time) and nine (or about one in 10 of the whole group) had missed >20% of the time (39 days) [7]. As in previous studies with ill children [5,23,30-32], Sturge et al found that attendance was linked to the severity of illness, in as much as this can be ascertained through type of illness (pauci- and polyarthritis), and was more compromised in the poly- group. We, however, didn't find an association with absenteeism and each specific subtype of JIA.…”