@article{ref1,
title="Parental distress in response to childhood medical trauma: a mediation model",
journal="Journal of health psychology",
year="2018",
author="Currie, Roseanne and Anderson, Vicki A. and McCarthy, Maria C. and Burke, Kylie and Hearps, Stephen Jc and Muscara, Frank",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="1359105318770728-1359105318770728",
abstract="This study explored the relationship between individual and family-level risk in predicting longer-term parental distress following their child's unexpected diagnosis of serious illness. A mediation model was tested, whereby parents' pre-existing psychosocial risk predicts longer-term posttraumatic stress symptoms, indirectly through parents' acute stress response. One hundred and thirty-two parents of 104 children participated. Acute stress response partially mediated the relationship between psychosocial risk and posttraumatic stress symptoms, with a moderate indirect effect ( r<sup>2</sup> =.20, P<sub>M</sub> =.56, p <.001). <br><br>FINDINGS demonstrated that cumulative psychosocial risk factors predispose parents to acute stress and longer-term posttraumatic stress symptoms, highlighting the need for psychosocial screening in this population.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1359-1053",
doi="10.1177/1359105318770728",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359105318770728"
}