Psychosocial aspects of living with congenital heart disease : child, family, and professional perspectives

Psychosocial aspects of living with congenital heart disease : child, family, and professional perspectives

Background: The vast majority of infants born with congenital heart disease (CHD) reach adulthood because of the developments in cardiology in recent decades. This thesis aims to describe the psychosocial situation of child/adolescent cardiac patients and their families, investigate the situation fa...

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Main Author: Birkeland, Anna-Lena
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Umeå universitet, Pediatrik 2012
Subjects:
breaking bad news
children/adolescents
congenital heart disease
communication
content analyse
coping
counselling
interprofessional team
medical education
patient relationships
paediatric cardiology
professional role
psychosocial inventory method
qualitative method
quantitative method stress
teamwork
Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-60761
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-7459-511-6

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http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-60761
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-7459-511-6

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