@article{ref1,
title="Childhood injury after a parental cancer diagnosis",
journal="Elife",
year="2015",
author="Chen, Ruoqing and Regodón Wallin, Amanda and Sjölander, Arvid and Valdimarsdóttir, Unnur and Ye, Weimin and Tiemeier, Henning and Fall, Katja and Almqvist, Catarina and Czene, Kamila and Fang, Fang",
volume="4",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="A parental cancer diagnosis is psychologically straining for the whole family. We investigated whether a parental cancer diagnosis is associated with a higher-than-expected risk of injury among children by using a Swedish nationwide register-based cohort study. Compared to children without parental cancer, children with parental cancer had a higher rate of hospital contact for injury during the first year after parental cancer diagnosis (hazard ratio [HR]=1.27, 95% confidence interval [CI]=1.22-1.33), especially when the parent had a comorbid psychiatric disorder after cancer diagnosis (HR=1.41, 95% CI=1.08-1.85). The rate increment declined during the second and third year after parental cancer diagnosis (HR=1.10, 95% CI=1.07-1.14) and became null afterwards (HR=1.01, 95% CI=0.99-1.03). Children with parental cancer also had a higher rate of repeated injuries than the other children (HR=1.13, 95% CI= 1.12-1.15). Given the high rate of injury among children in the general population, our findings may have important public health implications.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2050-084X",
doi="10.7554/eLife.08500",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.08500"
}