In view of their childs visible injury and obvious physical distress, many mothers feel too guilty to show the anger and resentment that they feel towards the injured child. Some parents feel that their child grew up or away from them during hospitalization and some maintained this detachment in their relationship after discharge. These were particularly the parents whose anxiety and guilt after the accident were denied or unresolved.xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Relatives, who are rated as guilt-ridden, demonstrate more dramatic stress response symptoms than those who were either troubled by guilt (had mild guilt) or expressed no guilt. Most of the relatives, who were quite distressed and guilt-ridden at the time of the burn injury, also were significantly distressed after six months and all showed at least moderate distress.
By Bronwen Jones and Charissa Bloomberg
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