Background This study aimed to investigate children's thinking about mental illness by
employing a well‐established framework of adult illness understanding. Methods The study …

Background Living with a child with a long‐term condition can result in challenges above
usual parenting because of illness‐specific demands. A critical evaluation of research …

Research exploring young people's perspectives on mental health is at an early stage of
development and few studies have focused in detail on mental distress or illness. This paper …

Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS) and Batten disease are rare life-limiting conditions (LLCs)
characterised by progressive and permanent physical and cognitive decline. The impact of …

Objectives Methodologically, to assess the feasibility of participant recruitment and retention,
as well as missing data in studying mental disorder among children newly diagnosed with …

Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 7-to-14-year-old children of parents with
multiple sclerosis (MS; N= 21) to examine children's perceptions of MS, and a content …

Introduction Multimorbidity, the co-occurrence of a chronic physical condition and mental
disorder, affects a substantial number of children and youth and can lead to compromised …

The lack of focus on young people as a group with particular healthcare needs in medical
training and the health service underpins the difficulty that we have experienced as a …

Although current health care service delivery approaches for children with cerebral palsy
recognize the importance of including parents in the health care of their child, we do not yet …

Using data from in-depth interviews with 20 children, this study finds that children with
parents suffering from mental health distress struggle hard to present themselves as …