Background This study addresses limitations of prior research that have used group
comparison designs to test the effects of parental illness on youth. Purpose This study …

Introduction: Existing literature suggests that the children of ill parents are vulnerable to a
variety of psychosocial difficulties such as depression and anxiety. The purpose of the …

Objective: Chronic illness is highly prevalent among adults with children. It is therefore
important to understand how parental illness may or may not have an impact on affected …

This study aimed to (1) examine relations between youth adjustment and three sets of
predictors: parental illness/disability characteristics, caregiving, and parent–child …

We review recent empirical literature examining the impact of parent physical illness on child
functioning. We review studies of illness characteristics (n= 16), individual characteristics (n …

Reviewed research concerning the relationship of parent and family functioning to the
psychological adjustment of children with chronic health conditions. More adaptive family …

A family ecology model for understanding adolescents' reactions to parental illness is
presented and used to (a) critically evaluate existing research that examines direct effects of …

Approximately 10% of children grow up with a parent who has been diagnosed with a
chronic medical condition (CMC) and seem to be at risk for adjustment difficulties. We …

Objective The present meta-analysis compared the quality of the parent–child relationship
as well as parenting behaviors and styles of families with a child with chronic physical illness …

A good number of children grow up in households where a parent has been diagnosed with
medical chronic illness. Parental chronic illness is stressful for children and adolescents and …