Patient and caregiver perspectives on mental health in children and adolescents with chronic kidney disease
Children and adolescents with CKD may feel vulnerable, experience fear and anxiety about their prognosis and health, harbour a sense of failure with disappointment, and experience medical trauma. Improving ways to address fears and uncertainty about health, disruption to lifestyle and identity, and medical trauma in children with CKD are needed.
Authors
- Allison Tong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8973-9538)
- Jonathan C. Craig (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2548-4035)
- Chandana Guha (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0767-4185)
- Hui‐Kim Yap (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6008-382X)
- Susan L. Furth (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2081-5242)
- Allison A. Eddy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3560-7510)
- Joshua Kausman
- Amanda Sluiter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-3003-4354)
- Stephen I. Alexander (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3609-4446)
- Anastasia M. Hughes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-5512-0333)
- Marianne Kerr (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9689-6715)
- Aditi Sinha (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9566-3370)
- Anita van Zwieten (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4564-5825)
- Allison Dart (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4718-9408)
- Luca G Torrisi
Institutions
- The University of Sydney (AU)
- Royal Children's Hospital (AU)
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (US)
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- National University of Singapore (SG)
- Flinders University (AU)
- Children's Hospital at Westmead (AU)
- Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba (CA)
- Murdoch Children's Research Institute (AU)
- BC Children's Hospital (CA)
- University of Manitoba (CA)
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences (IN)
- Victoria University (AU)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Clinical Kidney Journal
- Published
- 2025-03-08
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ckj/sfaf067
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.12