Interesting Studies on Parents in the NICU and Post-Traumatic Stress

Here is a link to a recent article published on Parents in the NICU and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder:

http://www.lpch.org/aboutus/news/releases/2009/ptsd.html

It looks like there has been quite a bit of research on this topic.


Here is another link to a related article on parental stress of families with high risk babies in the NICU. There are a lot more, but there isn't a link I can post for the list, go to the end of this article, at the bottom there is a bar that says "Display" with a drop-down menu, click on the drop down and go to "related articles" it will pull up a lot more info. I know this is specific to infants in the NICU, but as I read on, I do get the sense that this could also apply to all parents of special needs children, feel free to read them and let me know what you think.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16684937?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum