Pediatr Crit Care Me
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Nov 2009
Multicenter StudyLonger-term psychiatric adjustment of children and parents after meningococcal disease.
To ascertain whether increases in psychological symptoms in children and parents after meningococcal disease are sustained over time, and to examine the psychosocial and illness associations of 12-mo psychological outcome. ⋯ Admission to the hospital with meningococcal disease is followed by an increase in psychological symptoms in children at home, some of which are persistent and impairing, and by continuing posttraumatic stress symptoms in a proportion of children and parents. Psychosocial (pre- and postmorbid) factors predict problems at 12-mo follow-up.