Uncertainty and its relation to the psychological and social correlates of chronic illness in children

TY - JOUR

T1 - Uncertainty and its relation to the psychological and social correlates of chronic illness in children

AU - Jessop, Dorothy Jones

AU - Stein, Ruth E.K.

N1 - Funding Information: Society, Baltimore, March 1983 and a combined session of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association and the Soci-ety for Behavioral Pediatrics, Washington, DC, May 1983. This research was supported by the Department of Health and Human Services, Maternal and Child Health and Crippled Children Services, MC-R-360402 (Social Security Act, Title V) Grant. tThe respondent is the biological mother of the child in all except eight cases in which an aunt, a grandmother or a foster mother is the mother substitute. fAdditiona1 requirements for admission to the study were that the children had to be residents of the Bronx, receive at least a portion of medical care at the Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, be living in a household rather than an institutional setting, and be expected to live for the year of the study. Finally, the child could not be either moderately or severely retarded, and the family had to be Spanish or English speaking.

PY - 1985

Y1 - 1985

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U2 - 10.1016/0277-9536(85)90255-2

DO - 10.1016/0277-9536(85)90255-2

M3 - Article

C2 - 3160116

AN - SCOPUS:0022416566

SN - 0277-9536

VL - 20

SP - 993

EP - 999

JO - Ethics in Science and Medicine

JF - Ethics in Science and Medicine

IS - 10

ER -