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Emotional Adjustment of Children With Hydrocephalus and of Their Parents

Department of Psychology, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Department of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI

Byron P. Rourke, PhD

Department of Psychology, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario

Alexa I. Canady, MD

Department of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI

Emotional and behavioral adjustment after infantile hydrocephalus were investigated. Children's and parents' adjustments were assessed by means of questionnaires (PIC-R, SCL-90-R) in a sample of 48 children with shunted hydrocephalus. The PIC-R patterns of the children were mostly reflective of their anomalous physical and cognitive development, but there was no evidence for a specific "hydrocephalic personality" pattern. Discriminant analyses revealed that there were no strong relationships between distress of the parents (as assessed by the SCL-90-R) and a variety of physical and psychosocial variables, despite the fact that many parents were significantly distressed. It was concluded that the majority of children with hydrocephalus do not present with a specific psychiatric profile, that clinically significant levels of distress are quite common in their parents, and that such distress is typically not related to the hydrocephalus per se. (J Child Neurol 1992; 7:375- 380) .

Journal of Child Neurology, Vol. 7, No. 4, 375-380 (1992)
DOI: 10.1177/088307389200700408


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