Concerns of parents of children with shunted hydrocephalus

Materials and methods A nine items questionnaire created by Kulkarni (2006) was used to analyse parents concerns specifically. The answers were graduated from not at all to very true in a 5-point adjectival scale. Parents were asked to rate how concerned they were about each item. We collected also information about age, education, job and partnership and in addition about general health status, genesis of hydrocephalus, count of revisions, epilepsy and shunt infections. We analysed questionnaires completed by 37 mothers and 6 fathers of 43 children with shunted hydrocephalus (19 females, 24 males, mean age 10 y 2 mo).