Year: 2011
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Children's coping with, and adjustment to, chronic kidney disease was investigated.Twenty-eight children (14 pre-kidney transplant and 14 post-kidney transplant patients) and their parents participated in the study.Children identified a specific disease-related stressor that was distressing to them and reported on the coping strategies they used to deal with that stressor.Children also completed a measure of perceived parental support for coping, which assessed the types of coping strategies that children perceive their parents to be encouraging them to use, and their parents completed a parallel measure of coping strategies they encourage their child to use. are supporting the use of in their child).Finally, children completed measures of their adjustment (i.e., health-related quality of life, anxiety symptoms, depressive symptoms) and their parents completed a brief index of their child's global adjustment.Three hypotheses were examined: 1) Children will use more secondary control engagement coping strategies (e.g., distraction, positive thinking, cognitive restructuring, humor, acceptance) than either primary control engagement strategies (e.g., problem solving, emotion regulation, emotional expression) or disengagement strategies (e.g., avoidance, denial, wishful thinking) and they will use more primary control engagement strategies than disengagement strategies; parental support for coping strategies will follow similar patterns; 2) Children who use higher levels of secondary control engagement coping and primary control engagement coping will exhibit better adjustment, whereas children who use disengagement coping will exhibit poorer adjustment; and 3) Parental support for primary Sincere gratitude is extended to the National Kidney Foundation of Ohio, National Kidney Foundation of Michigan, and Camp Kydnie of Pennsylvania for their support and help in identifying potential participants for this study.Special thanks are given to Dr. Paul Kettlewell for his support of this project and his assistance in data collection.Finally, I would like to acknowledge my family and friends for their support and encouragement during this long and sometimes difficult process.In particular, Kelly (Lister)
Author: KristiLynn R. Volkenant
Institution: Bowling Green State University
Language: English
Topic: Family Support in Illness
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Kidney Foundation of Ohio
OpenAlex ID: W2007816102