TY  - JOUR
A1  - Krattenmacher, Thomas
A1  - Kühne, Franziska
A1  - Halverscheid, Susanne
A1  - Wiegand-Grefe, Silke
A1  - Bergelt, Corinna
A1  - Romer, Georg
A1  - Möller, Birgit
T1  - A comparison of the emotional and behavioral problems of children of patients with cancer or a mental disorder and their association with parental quality of life
JF  - Journal of psychosomatic research
N2  - OBJECTIVE To compare the emotional and behavioral problems of children of patients suffering from cancer or a mental disorder and their association with parental quality of life. METHODS A total of 223 children from 136 families and their 160 parents were investigated from multiple perspectives in a cross-sectional study. The consistency of different adjustment reports between family members was examined. Through mixed models, the differences between parental HRQoL and the children's symptomatology were studied with regard to the type of parental illness. The prediction of children's adjustment through parental HRQoL was further examined. Additionally, gender and age of the children were considered. RESULTS Half of the children exhibited psychosocial problems. Gender and age differences were independent of the type of parental disease. In families with parental cancer, the reports of children's adjustment were more consistent between family members than in families where a parental mental disorder was present. We found differences in HRQoL between families with mentally ill parents and those with parental cancer patients. Specifically, the healthy partners of mentally ill parents showed worse HRQoL compared with healthy partners of cancer patients. Healthy parents' reduced HRQoL was associated with worse adjustment in their children, regardless of the type of parental illness, but this result was not found for ill parents. CONCLUSION Family members confronted with parental cancer or mental disorders are more burdened compared with those from the normal population, independently of the type of disease. Our results indicate that the type of a parental disease has no direct effect on children's adjustment. However, there are disease-specific effects on parental HRQoL, which are associated with children's adjustment.
KW  - Adolescent
KW  - Affective Symptoms/psychology
KW  - Child
KW  - Female
KW  - Humans
KW  - Male
KW  - Mental Disorders/psychology
KW  - Neoplasms/psychology
KW  - Parent-Child Relations
KW  - Parents/psychology
KW  - Quality of Life
Y1  - 2014
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2013.11.020
VL  - 76
SP  - 213
EP  - 220
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kühne, Franziska
A1  - Krattenmacher, Thomas
A1  - Bergelt, Corinna
A1  - Bierbaum, Anna-Lena
A1  - Christine Ernst, Johanna
A1  - Flechtner, Hans-Henning
A1  - Keller, Monika
A1  - Klitzing, Kai V.
A1  - Romer, Georg
A1  - Möller, Birgit
T1  - Elternschaft und Krebserkrankung: Dyadische Analyse von psychosozialer Belastung und gesundheitsbezogener Lebensqualität von krebskranken Eltern minderjähriger Kinder
JF  - Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik, medizinische Psychologie
N2  - The purpose of this study was the analysis of psychological distress and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of parents with minor children during curative resp. palliative treatment.Cross-sectional design with a sample of N=89 parent dyads. Dyadic analysis of demographic, illness and family variables via mixed linear models.Patients and healthy partners indicated psychological distress on different subscales. Intradyadic correlations were small-moderate. Most important predictors of psychological distress and HRQoL were treatment stadium, gender, family functioning, and employment status.Dependent on demographic variables, psychooncological support was evident mainly for parents in palliative care and for families with dysfunctional functioning.
KW  - Adult
KW  - Child
KW  - Preschool
KW  - Cross-Sectional Studies
KW  - Employment
KW  - Family
KW  - Female
KW  - Humans
KW  - Infant
KW  - Linear Models
KW  - Male
KW  - Middle Aged
KW  - Neoplasms/complications/psychology
KW  - Neuropsychological Tests
KW  - Palliative Care
KW  - Parents/psychology
KW  - Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
KW  - Quality of Life
KW  - Stress
KW  - Psychological/etiology/psychology
Y1  - 2013
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0033-1341454
VL  - 63
SP  - 473
EP  - 481
ER  -