OBJECTIVE: To investigate long-term psychosocial outcomes in young adults who survived @entity326 caused by @entity3631 ( @entity7135 ) during childhood. DESIGN: A cross-sectional study. SETTING: The psychological investigation took place in the department of @entity1 and Adolescent Psychiatry of the Erasmus MC-Sophia @entity1 's Hospital. @entity1 : All consecutive surviving @entity1 with @entity7135 requiring intensive care treatment at the pediatric intensive care unit between 1988 and 2001. INTERVENTION: To explore biographical characteristics (such as living conditions, educational, occupational, and marital status) and illness-related physical or social consequences a structured interview was used. To assess intellectual functioning the Groninger Intelligence Test 2 was used and to assess @entity146 , the Adult Self-Report was used. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Fifty-eight of 83 eligible @entity326 survivors were evaluated (response rate: 70%). The @entity1 were 16-31 yrs old at time of follow-up (median age: 21 yrs old). These @entity1 had had @entity7135 before 18 yrs of age. Median follow-up interval was 13 yrs, with a range of 4 to 16 yrs. For the vast majority of @entity7135 @entity1 , outcomes on biographical characteristics, intellectual functioning, and levels of @entity146 were comparable to those of reference groups. A minority (5% to 20%) still report illness-related physical or social consequences, @entity146 , and lower intellectual functioning. CONCLUSIONS: Despite favorable outcomes for the majority of @entity7135 @entity1 in the long term, an important minority (5% to 20%) still struggles with ongoing problems as to @entity146 , intellectual functioning, biographical characteristics, and illness-related physical or social consequences.

Survivors of XXXX caused by @entity3631 in childhood: psychosocial outcomes in young adulthood.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['Child', 'patients', 'Children', 'PATIENTS'] @entity146 :: ('MESH:D001523', 'Disease') :: ['behavioral and emotional problems', 'behavioral/emotional problems'] @entity326 :: ('MESH:D012772', 'Disease') :: ['septic shock'] @entity7135 :: ('MESH:D008589', 'Disease') :: ['meningococcal septic shock'] @entity3631 :: ('487', 'Species') :: ['Neisseria meningitidis']
@entity326 :: (MESH:D012772,Disease) :: ['septic shock']
