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The Social and Cultural Context of Coping with Sickle Cell Disease: II. The Role of Financial Hardship in Adjustment to Sickle Cell DiseaseUniversity of Michigan
Wayne State University Medical School
Comprehensive Sickle Cell Clinic, Childrens Hospital of Michigan
Comprehensive Sickle Cell Clinic, Childrens Hospital of Michigan Recent evidence on the negative psychological effects of poverty suggests that economic status alone might account for the adjustment problems attributed to sickle cell disease (SCD). The relationship of SCD and financial hardship to adjustment was examined in 327 ill children and their parents. SCD and hardship contributed independently to impaired child and parental functioning. For parents, illness severity had more negative effects than did financial hardship, but for
Journal of Black Psychology, Vol. 25, No. 3,
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