ABSTRACT
12 adolescents with sickle cell disease rated psychosocial reactions to their disease. They had positive social and family relationships but had concerns about body development, self-confidence, being a burden on their families, and death.
Subject(s)
Attitude to Health , Hemoglobin SC Disease/psychology , Psychology, Adolescent , Adolescent , Emotions , Family Relations , Female , Humans , Interpersonal Relations , MaleABSTRACT
Few studies have examined psychosocial issues from the perspective of children who have sickle cell disease. In the present study psychosocial issues of self-esteem, social and family relationships, anxiety, depression, anger, denial, and knowledge were examined using a researcher-developed survey and 12 children with sickle cell disease as informants.
Subject(s)
Attitude to Health , Emotions , Hemoglobin SC Disease/psychology , Interpersonal Relations , Self Concept , Adaptation, Psychological , Age Factors , Child , Health Status , Humans , Social AdjustmentABSTRACT
In the present study, we further examined (see Kamhi & Catts, 1986) the phonological processing abilities of language-impaired (LI) and reading-impaired (RI) children. We also evaluated these children's ability to process spatial information. Subjects were 10 LI, 10 RI, and 10 normal children between the ages of 6:8 and 8:10 years. Each subject was administered eight tasks: four word repetition tasks (monosyllabic, monosyllabic presented in noise, three-item, and multisyllabic), rapid naming, syllable segmentation, paper folding, and form completion. The normal children performed significantly better than both the LI and RI children on all but two tasks: syllable segmentation and repeating words presented in noise. The LI and RI children performed comparably on every task with the exception of the multisyllabic word repetition task. These findings were consistent with those from our previous study (Kamhi & Catts, 1986). The similarities and differences between LI and RI children are discussed.
