Behavioral and Emotional Outcomes in Children with Congenital Heart Disease: Effects of Disease Severity, Family Life Stress, Disease-Related Chronic Stress, and Psychosocial Adaptation

The effects of greater CHD severity and family life stress on behavioral-emotional outcomes were mediated by worse disease-related chronic stress and psychosocial adaptation factors. Both disease-related chronic stress and psychosocial adaptation factors may be targets for interventions to improve behavioral and emotional outcomes.