Nadya Golfenshtein1, Alexandra L. Hanlon2, Janet A. Deatrick3, Barbara Medoff‐Cooper3,4
Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.14, No.6, pp. 1113-1122, 2019, DOI:10.1111/chd.12858
Abstract Objective: Parents of infants with congenital heart disease (CHD) experience
increased parenting stress levels, potentially interfering with parenting practices
and bear adverse family outcomes. Condition severity has been linked to parenting
stress. The current study aimed to explore parenting stress trajectories over infancy
in parents of infants with complex CHD, and to compare them by post‐operative
cardiac physiology.
Design: Data from a larger prospective cohort study was analyzed using longitudinal
mixed‐effects regression modeling.
Setting: Cardiac intensive care unit and outpatient clinic of a 480‐bed children's
hospital in the American North‐Atlantic region.
Participants: Parents of infants with complex CHD (n… More >
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