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The Social and Cultural Context of Coping with Sickle Cell Disease: II. The Role of Financial Hardship in Adjustment to Sickle Cell Disease

Year: 1999

Type: article

Abstract: Recent evidence on the negative psychological effects of poverty suggests that economic status alone might account for the adjustment problems attributed to sickle cell disease (SCD). The relationship of SCD and financial hardship to adjustment was examined in 327 ill children and their parents. SCD and hardship contributed independently to impaired child and parental functioning. For parents, illness severity had more negative effects than did financial hardship, but for

Source: Journal of Black Psychology

DOI: 10.1177/0095798499025003003

Authors: Oscar A. Barbarin, Charles F. Whitten, Sandy Bond, Rhonda Conner-Warren

Institutions: University of Michigan, Wayne State University, Children's Hospital of Michigan

Language: English

Topic: Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders

Subfield: Genetics

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Reduced inequalities, No poverty

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2128834073