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Parental Uncertainty In Illness Of An Infant And Perinatal Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder In The Nicu, Kathryn Jeanne Malin
Parental Uncertainty In Illness Of An Infant And Perinatal Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder In The Nicu, Kathryn Jeanne Malin
Theses and Dissertations
Varying and conflicting risk factors for perinatal post-traumatic stress disorder (PPTSD) have been reported in the literature in parents after having an infant in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Furthermore, relationships between feelings of parental uncertainty in illness of an infant in the NICU and PPTSD in parents have not been established. The purpose of this study was to (a) investigate the factor structure underlying parental perception of uncertainty scale (PPUS) in a sample of parents in the NICU; (b) describe how parental uncertainty in illness changes throughout the NICU course and after discharge; (c) evaluate if infant illness …