SynthesisJournal of clinical psychology in medical settings2020
Early Emotional, Behavioural and Social Development of Infants and Young Children with Congenital Heart Disease: A Systematic Review.
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- Ethical dilemmas in continuing pregnancy after a prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart defects: a systematic review and narrative synthesis.BMC medical ethics · 2025Pooled it
- Digital Emotion Regulation Interventions for Patients With Congenital Heart Disease: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2025Trial
- Early Childhood Emotional, Relational, and Stress-Related Outcomes Following Infant Cardiac Surgery.Developmental psychobiology · 2026Article
- Connection after correction: Parent-child relationships following early cardiac surgery.Infant mental health journal · 2026Article
- Peer relationships and social-affective functioning of children with critical congenital heart defects and comparison classmates.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2026Article
- Neonatal brain structure, cognitively stimulating parenting and behavioural outcomes in preschool children with congenital heart disease and controls.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Atypical Development of Functional Brain Networks in Neonates with Congenital Heart Disease.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Spectral EEG in Congenital Heart Disease: A Case-Control Study in Infants Undergoing Cardiac Surgery.Pediatric cardiology · 2026Article
- Assessment of Early Development in Congenital Heart Disease Using a Novel Caregiver Rating Method.Pediatric cardiology · 2026Article
- Neurodevelopment and psychosocial adjustment in children with early surgical ventricular septal defect repair: exploring the influence of surgery-related variables across childhood and adolescence.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery · 2026Article
- Indicators of physical and emotional health in infants during hospitalization in paediatric cardiac intensive care units.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Article
- Cognitive disengagement syndrome and peer relationships of youth with critical congenital heart defects.Child neuropsychology : a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence · 2025Article
- Prevalence of congenital heart defects among children with and without diagnosed fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, 2016-2022.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2025Article
- Psychosocial functioning in children with a congenital heart disease: attachment and emotion regulation strategies of children and parents as explanatory factors.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2025Article
- Behaviour Concerns in Preschool Cardiac Surgery Survivors.CJC pediatric and congenital heart disease · 2024Article
- Exploring early life social and executive function development in infants and risk for autism: a prospective cohort study protocol of NICU graduates and infants at risk for cerebral palsy.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Cognitive Functioning and Psychosocial Outcomes in Adults with Complex Congenital Heart Disease: A Cross-sectional Pilot Study.Pediatric cardiology · 2024Article
- Patterns of WISC-V Performance in Children with Congenital Heart Disease.Pediatric cardiology · 2024Article
- Impact of COVID-19 Infections among Unvaccinated Patients with Congenital Heart Disease: Results of a Nationwide Analysis in the First Phase of the Pandemic.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- The impact of early surgical ventricular septal defect repair on parenting behavior and mother-child relationship: a prospective longitudinal study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Article
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Abstract
The experiences of diagnosis of congenital heart disease (CHD), cardiac surgery and hospitalisation(s) are distressing and represent a significant stressor for a child and family, which may impact psychosocial development. This systematic review provides a synthesis of psychosocial outcomes of infants and young children with congenital heart disease who had cardiac surgery early in life. Twenty-eight studies related to infant and young children's psychosocial development, specifically emotional, social and behavioural functioning were identified. Variability was related to methodological factors including differences in study design, varying measurement tools and heterogeneous samples. Despite these limitations, the majority of studies were of high quality. The most common finding was a high prevalence of low-severity emotional and behavioural dysregulation. Young children with severe CHD or comorbid conditions experienced greater impairment, with higher rates of externalising behaviour problems, although internalising behaviour problems were also evident. This review integrates findings from literature in the past 28 years on the psychosocial well-being of infants and young children with CHD and demonstrates a risk for emotional, social and behavioural development difficulty, and, importantly, that symptoms of psychosocial impairment are detectable very early in infancy. We advocate for assessment and monitoring of emotional and behavioural regulation and social development to be routinely conducted from infancy to enable prevention and early intervention.
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