Psychosocial Correlates of Health Care Utilization for Children and Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus

Applying the Transactional Stress and Coping Model to Sickle Cell Disorder and Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus: Identifying Psychosocial Variables Related to Adjustment and Intervention

“…Children with IDDM have 3 times the rate of psychological disorder than healthy controls and have significantly higher levels of internalizing symptoms than healthy controls (Blanz, Rensch-Riemann, Fritz-Sigmund, & Schmidt, 1993), at both initial diagnosis and 2 years post-diagnosis (Grey, Cameron, Lipman, & Thurber, 1995). Internalizing symptoms, such as depressive symptomatology, are important because they are associated with increased heath care use in children with IDDM (Cote et al, 2003). These findings, however, may be due to the interpretation of diseaserelated physical complaints as somatic symptoms of depression.…”

The relationship between parental overprotection and health-related quality of life in pediatric cancer: the mediating role of perceived child vulnerability

“…More recently, however, the relationship between discrete parenting variables, including parenting stress, parental overprotection, and perceived child vulnerability, and child adjustment has increasingly gained attention in pediatric psychology research [4][5][6][7][8]. The robust transactional relationship between parent and child adjustment to chronic illness [9] suggests that even discrete parenting variables have the ability to influence child adjustment outcomes.…”

Functional Limitations Associated with Chronic Health Conditions Among School-Aged Children in Kayseri, Turkey

“…Thus, edu ca ti on can be dis rup ted and the child be gins to lo se to uch with its pe ers re sul ting in fe e lings of iso la ti on, fe e ling dif fe rent and struggling to ke ep up with aca de mic work. 26 No net he less, our fin dings sug gest that ac tivity-li mi ting con di ti ons in chil dren with chro nic he alth con di ti ons we re as so ci a ted mo re clo sely with them and the ir pa rents' so ci o de mog rap hic cha rac te ris tics (Tab le 3). Func ti o nal ac ti vity li mita ti ons we re most pre va lent in chil dren of lowedu ca ted, unemp lo yed and low-in co me fa mi li es.…”

“…7,8,19,22 In se ve ral studi es, the pre va len ce of ac ti vity li mi ta ti ons in chil dren with chro nic he alth con di ti on was re ported to ran ge from 3.6 to 14.8%. 7,9,15,23,[26][27][28] Alt ho ugh the scho ol ab sen ce days in chil dren with chro nic he alth con di ti ons (Tab le 4) we re slightly hig her than that re por ted el sew he re 9,23 it was still wit hin the re fe ren ce po ints. 11,25,26,27 .…”

“…7,9,15,23,[26][27][28] Alt ho ugh the scho ol ab sen ce days in chil dren with chro nic he alth con di ti ons (Tab le 4) we re slightly hig her than that re por ted el sew he re 9,23 it was still wit hin the re fe ren ce po ints. 11,25,26,27 . Msall et al 9 re por ted that the ra te of scho ol ab sen ce was 5.7%, whe re as Ne wac heck and Hal fon 18 re por ted that it was 23% in chil dren with di sab ling chro nic con di ti ons li miting the ir abi lity to at tend scho ol on a long-term ba sis.…”