Behavioral and psychological disorders in uninfected children aged 6 to 11 years born to human immunodeficiency virus-seropositive mothers
| Autor: | Maria Cristina Musetti, E. Massironi, Laura Musetti, Nicola Principi, Sonia Corbella, Susanna Esposito, Adriana Guareschi, Tornaghi R, Paola Marchisio |
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Adult Infectious Disease Transmission Child Behavior Anxiety Developmental psychology Cohort Studies Child Development Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Pregnancy Surveys and Questionnaires HIV Seropositivity Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Vertical Humans Family history Pregnancy Complications Infectious Child Behavior Checklist Child Depression (differential diagnoses) Manifest Anxiety Scale Recall Depression Infectious medicine.disease Child development Infectious Disease Transmission Vertical Pregnancy Complications Psychiatry and Mental health Social Adjustment Mental Recall Follow-Up Studies Female Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health medicine.symptom Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier |
| Popis: | This study investigated the behavioral and psychological differences between 39 uninfected children born to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-seropositive mothers (HIV-seroreverter [SR]) and 78 children with no family history of HIV infection. Caretakers completed the Child Behavior Checklist and the Gittelman modification of the Conners' Parent's Questionnaire, whereas children completed the Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale and the Children's Depression Inventory. In 14 SR children and 28 controls, narrative task was also evaluated. The personalities of SR children, as measured by the caretaker-completed scales, revealed significantly more problems of social adjustment and attention and more externalizing symptoms than did the personalities of control children. On the child-completed scales, SR children showed significantly more anxiety and depression than did controls. Caretakers reported consistently fewer symptoms of anxiety and depression in the children than did the children themselves. Difficulties in verbal recall included aspects of depressive and anxious feelings; on the narrative task measure, SR children showed poorer skill in free verbal recall than did control children, and they simplified episodes with mixed emotions. In addition, ambiguous episodes elicited significantly more negative feelings in SR children than in controls. These findings show that there is a great necessity for assisting SR children. It will be important to determine whether these children will remain at risk for emotional consequences in their adult lives. |
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