APS

2022 APS Annual Convention · 2022

Parental Stress, Coping, and Emotional Well-Being When Children Have Critical Congenital Heart Defects

Chicago, IL · May 2022

Poster · Clinical Science

  • Megan Kozak
    The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital
  • Andrea Goard
    Nationwide Children's Hospital
  • Abigail Decipeda
    Nationwide Children's Hospital
  • May Ling Mah
    Nationwide Children's Hospital
  • May Ling Mah
    The Ohio State University, College of Medicine
  • Jamie Jackson
    Nationwide Children's Hospital
  • Jamie Jackson
    The Ohio State University, College of Medicine
  • Kathryn Vannatta
    The Ohio State University, College of Medicine
  • Kathryn Vannatta
    Nationwide Children's Hospital

Abstract

Surgical advances have dramatically reduced mortality for critical congenital heart defects (CHD), yet significant gaps exist in what we know about the broader development of the growing number of long-term survivors. Our research investigates the related stress and emotional distress in parents of children with CHD.

Stress

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