University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
J Health Psychol. 2011 Nov;16(8):1259-67. doi: 10.1177/1359105311405872. Epub 2011 Jun 27.
Posttraumatic growth (PTG) can occur after various types of trauma but has not been studied prospectively in parents of children with chronic diseases. In this study, PTG was assessed in 126 parents of 67 children with type 1 diabetes or cancer three years after diagnosis. Most parents (62.7%) reported at least a moderate degree of PTG. Quality of family relationships, parental psychological distress and child medical characteristics assessed one month after diagnosis, and parents' gender, explained 34 percent of PTG variance. The findings confirm that a severe disease of a child can lead to personal growth in the child's parents.
创伤后成长（PTG）可发生于各种类型的创伤后，但在患有慢性疾病的儿童的父母中尚未进行前瞻性研究。在这项研究中，在诊断后三年评估了 67 名 1 型糖尿病或癌症儿童的 126 名父母的 PTG。大多数父母（62.7％）报告至少有中度的 PTG。诊断后一个月评估的家庭关系质量，父母心理困扰和儿童的医疗特征，以及父母的性别，解释了 34％的 PTG 差异。研究结果证实，孩子的严重疾病会导致孩子的父母个人成长。
