Medico-Social Criteria for Diagnosing Cruelty to Chronically Ill Children in the Family

Abstract

72 cases of parents’ cruelty to children suffering from various forms of chronic pathology have been analyzed. Medical and social criteria for diagnosing child abuse in the family have been selected. Parents’ cruelty to children was found to be revealed mainly in cases with neurological diseases (44.4%) and patients suffering from chronic respiratory pathology (20.8%), digestion (13.9%). Child abuse in the family did not depend on the child gender, had a close connection with his age and was registered with respect to the children of the senior preschool - 14 cases. (19.4%) and junior schoolchildren - 18 cases (25%) of the ages. In 86% of cases, child abuse was associated with parental disregard for the treatment of children. The authors believe the identified diagnostic criteria to contribute to the creation of an algorithm for the actions of specialists in monitoring and preventing disregard to the treatment of chronically ill children in the family.

Psychological Care For School-Age Patients With Covid-19 At Hospitals For Infectious Diseases

“…The severity of medical condition and specific hospital environment determined non-acceptance of traditional psychological assessments. The children were examined in a hospital ward, observation and screening tests were applied, which involved a "Three Wishes" technique (for primary schoolchildren), an adapted "Incomplete Sentences" technique (for adolescents), free-subject paintings; a questionnaire of 10 questions aimed at clarifying children's physical well-being, their wishes for everyday life and leisure activities to be arranged in a ward (Prikhozhan & Tolstykh, 2005;Sviridova, 2018). Statistical processing relied on descriptive statistics, Pearson's test χ2, for p≤0.05.…”