Ben-Ari Amichai, Ankri Yael L E, Aloni Roy, Buniak-Rojas Orly
Department of Behavioral Sciences, Ariel University, Ariel 4070000, Israel.
Herman Dana Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, P.O. Box 12000, Jerusalem 9112001, Israel.
Children (Basel). 2022 Aug 22;9(8):1265. doi: 10.3390/children9081265.
In recent years, many studies have attempted to find the main predictors of the development of post-traumatic symptoms in children following medical procedures. Recent studies found a link between parental beliefs and children's post-traumatic symptoms in various medical contexts such as life-threatening illness, pain, and hospitalization. This study aims to examine the relationship between parental beleifs and post-traumatic symptoms in children and parents after surgical interventions of the children. The study was conducted among 149 children who underwent surgery and their parents. The children and parents were examined at 2 time points- during hospitalization, and 4 months after the hospitalization. Questionnaires were administered measuring parental beleifs pertaining to parental distress, and post-traumatic symptoms among children. results show a correlation between the factors. In addition, it was found that the parents' distress is a mediating relationship between the parents' perceptions and the child's level of distress. It has been found that there is a link between some of the parental beleifs and parental stress symptoms and post-traumatic symptoms in the children. Parental beliefs that were found to influence these variables were related to parental beliefs regarding children's suffering and pain during surgery. In addition, children of parents with higher levels of religious and spiritual beliefs were found to have fewer post-traumatic symptoms. This study sheds light on parental beliefs that may have the power to influence parental stress levels and children's post-traumatic symptoms after surgery.
近年来，许多研究试图找出儿童在接受医疗程序后创伤后症状发展的主要预测因素。最近的研究发现，在诸如危及生命的疾病、疼痛和住院等各种医疗环境中，父母的信念与儿童的创伤后症状之间存在联系。本研究旨在探讨儿童手术干预后父母的信念与儿童及父母创伤后症状之间的关系。该研究对149名接受手术的儿童及其父母进行。在两个时间点对儿童和父母进行检查——住院期间以及住院后4个月。发放问卷以测量与父母痛苦相关的父母信念以及儿童的创伤后症状。结果显示这些因素之间存在相关性。此外，还发现父母的痛苦在父母的认知与孩子的痛苦程度之间起中介作用。已发现一些父母信念与父母压力症状以及儿童的创伤后症状之间存在联系。被发现影响这些变量的父母信念与父母对孩子手术期间痛苦和疼痛的信念有关。此外，发现宗教和精神信仰水平较高的父母的孩子创伤后症状较少。这项研究揭示了可能有能力影响父母压力水平和儿童手术后创伤后症状的父母信念。
