Treatment characteristics of congenital heart disease and behaviour problems of patients and healthy siblings

OBJECTIVE: To examine behaviour problems of children in families where one child was diagnosed with congenital heart disease (CHD), in relation to the intensity of treatment required for the CHD. METHODOLOGY: Treatment intensity was based on patients' hospitalizations, surgical operations, current treatment, frequency of check-ups and finality of surgical repair. Mothers of 29 patients and 43 healthy siblings (4-14 years old), and a sub-sample …