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July 1, 1966PEDIATRICS

Attitudinal Factors in Congenital Heart Disease

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LLLeonard M. LindeUniversity of Southern CaliforniaBRBeatrice RasofUniversity of California, Los AngelesODOlive Jean DunnUniversity of Southern California

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Explores family attitudes and behaviors influenced by congenital heart disease in children, highlighting maternal anxiety implications.

Key Points

  • To investigate how congenital heart disease affects behavioral attitudes in children and their families.
  • Explored the effects of congenital heart disease on pediatric patients, siblings, and parents.
  • Examined impacts of physician's diagnosis on family attitudes and behaviors.
  • Assessed maternal anxiety, protectiveness, and child incapacity relationships.
  • Maternal anxiety is a strong predictor of maternal protectiveness, regardless of child incapacity.
  • Significant differences in maternal pampering were observed between cardiac and normal groups, particularly in the cyanotic group.
  • Child adjustment issues were more closely related to maternal anxiety than to the severity of the heart condition.

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Linde et al. (1966) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a224eacb5b715f1d04eb342https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.38.1.92
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