"There's no acknowledgement of what this does to people": A qualitative exploration of mental health among parents of children with critical congenital heart defects.

Sarah E Woolf-KingEmily ArnoldSandra WeissDavid Teitel

Published in: Journal of clinical nursing (2018)

Suggestions for how the field of paediatric cardiology could begin to integrate mental health services into congenital heart defect treatment are provided.

Keyphrases

mental health
intensive care unit
young adults
emergency department
cardiac surgery
mental illness