Family Functioning of Adolescents with Congenital Cardiopathy in a Sample from Public Schools in Porto Alegre - RS

Family Functioning and Congenital Heart Disease

“…In this recent paper, Piccoli et al, 7 studied the family functioning of adolescents with CHD. The study included 387 adolescents, 161 (41.6%) with CHD and 226 (58.4%) healthy adolescents from a public specialized hospital and public schools, respectively, through a socio-bio-demographic questionnaire and the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scale III (FACES III).…”