%0 Journal Article %T Comportamento parental face ¨¤ cardiopatia cong¨¦nita %A Sim£¿es %A Sandra %A Pires %A Ant¨®nio %A Barroca %A Ana %J An¨¢lise Psicol¨®gica %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X the purpose of this study is to understand the parental behavior towards to congenital heart disease. the participants of this study are 14 mothers e 2 dads (both parents were present in 2 interviews) of children diagnosed with congenital heart disease, with ages between 21 days and 13 years. based on grounded theory, fourteen semi-structured interviews were analyzed, which five of them belongs to a previous study (barroca, 2003). since diagnose is communicated, the parents and family life is altered, becoming their primary worry the fear of children¡¯s death related to the uncertainty of diagnose. being surgery incident at this study, the possibility of persistent symptoms or the necessity of new surgery, promotes a felling of threat to the parental confidence, conducing to a suspended parenthood, centered at the children¡¯s disease. %K chronic disease %K congenital heart disease %K grounded theory %K parental behavior. %U http://www.scielo.gpeari.mctes.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0870-82312010000400005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en