Title | Coping in children with haemophilia and thalassaemia: a cross-national study | ||
Authors | Frosso Motti-Stefanidi1, Stelios Christogiorgos2, Stavroula Diareme3, Gerasimos Kolaitis4, Lester Gilbert5, Christina Samara6, Sophia Baharaki7, Gabriella Ba8, Christine Lee9, Titika Mandalaki10, Vassilis Ladis11, Christos Kattamis12 and John Tsiantis13
1. F. Motti-Stefanidi, PhD., Professor of School Psychology, Department of Psychology, School of Philosophy, Athens University, Greece 2. S. Christogiorgos, MD, Lecturer of Child Psychiatry, Department of Child Psychiatry, Athens University Medical School, Aghia Sophia Children’s Hospital, Greece 3. S. Diareme, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist, Scientific Associate, Department of Child Psychiatry, Athens University Medical School, Aghia Sophia Children’s Hospital, Athens, Greece 4. G. Kolaitis, MD, Assist. Professor of Child Psychiatry, Department of Child Psychiatry, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece 5. L. Gilbert, MSc., Psychologist, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, S017 1BJ, U.K. 6. C. Samara, MD, Child Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist, Athens, Greece 7. S. Baharaki, Child Psychiatrist, General Hospital of Syros, Greece 8. G. Ba, Psychiatric Department, IRCCS Ospedale Maggiore, Milan University, Milan, Italy 9. C. Lee, Haemophilia Centre, Royal Free Hospital, London, U.K. 10. T. Mandalaki, Former Director, 2nd Regional Transfusion Centre, Haemophilia Centre, Laiko General Hospital, Athens Greece 11. V. Ladis, Pediatrist, Department of Pediatrics, Aghia Sophia Children’s Hospital, Athens Greece 12. C. Kattamis, MD, Emeritus Prof. of Pediatrics, 1st Department of Pediatrics, Aghia Sophia Children’s Hospital, Athens, Greece 13. J. Tsiantis, MD, DPM, FRC Psych, Prof. of Child Psychiatry, Department of Child Psychiatry, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece |
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Citation | Motti-Stefanidi, F., Christogiorgos, S., Diareme, S., Kolaitis, G., Gilbert, L. et al.: Coping in children with haemophilia and thalassaemia: a cross-national study, Epitheorese Klin. Farmakol. Farmakokinet. 22(1): 5-17 (2008) | ||
Publication Date | Accepted for publication (Final verson): April 1, 2008 | ||
Full Text Language | English | ||
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Keywords | Thalassaemia, haemophilia, children, adolescents, coping strategies. | ||
Other Terms | Review article | ||
Summary | This study evaluates the coping strategies of children with thalassaemia and haemophilia in comparison to the coping strategies of their healthy siblings, who lived in families with a member suffering from a chronic illness. A cross-cultural sample was used which included 168 children, aged 6 to 18 years, from three European countries, England, Italy and Greece. One hundred children were patients with haemophilia (n=58) or thalassaemia (n=42) and 68 healthy siblings. The Spirito’s Kidcope measure was used to assess the frequency and efficacy of children’s different coping strategies and the Wechsler Intelligence Scales for Children-Revised (WISC-R) for cognitive abilities. In dealing with stress, results showed that the most frequently coping strategies used by all groups of children were two emotion-focused and two problem-focused strategies. Children used least frequently emotion-focused strategies, which were considered dysfunctional and non-productive. Differences were found in the frequency of certain coping strategies related to country of origin and type of disease. It was assumed that these differences reflected differences in health system policies between countries and in family dynamics related to the varying impact of the two blood diseases and basically the considerable discomfort of conventional thalassaemia treatment. | ||
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