OBJECTIVE To examine parental stress in mothers of boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). METHOD Stress and its predictors were examined in mothers of boys with DMD (n = 112). Comparisons were made with mothers of healthy children (n = 800), children with cerebral palsy (CP; n = 28), siblings of boys with DMD (n = 46), and longitudinally (n = 16). RESULTS The presence of problem child...

Cerebral palsy (CP) is one of the most common chronic pediatric conditions worldwide, raising multiple challenges on family, particularly, mothers, who assume care that child needs. Nevertheless, despite demands associated with child, literature has been showing parents also have competence to face adversity. Goals: Understand experience these exploring factors that, in their perception, contri...

Abstract Background and Aim: The aim of this study was to compilation and validation of educational program for mothers with children with cerebral palsy disorder. Method: The research method was qualitative textual analysis. The research population consisted of three sections: Persian and English specialized books and articles (recent 20 years) in the field of resilience education, resili...

OBJECTIVES to evaluate parental stress of mothers of children and adolescents with cerebral palsy; to verify whether parental stress undergoes variations according to the level of motor compromise, the child's phase of life, and sociodemographic variables. METHOD a cross-sectional, descriptive study, with 223 mothers of children and adolescents with cerebral palsy. RESULTS 45.3% of the moth...

The prevalence of maternal depression was investigated in the mothers of 96 children: 30 premature infants at risk for the development of cerebral palsy; 35 premature infants considered not to be at risk for the development of cerebral palsy; and 31 healthy fullterm infants. There were equally high levels of depression in all three groups of mothers, regardless of birth status, prediction of di...

objective : the findings demonstrated that parents of children with cerebral palsy experience elevated levels of distress, depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress symptom and subjective symptom of stress and low quality of life. effective interventions targeting relapse have the potential to dramatically reduce the point prevalence of this condition. many studies have shown that mindfulness b...

BACKGROUND Taking care of a child with special needs can be draining and difficult and require a lot of parental time and resources. The present study investigated the long-term sickness absence of parents who have children with spina bifida, cerebral palsy and Down syndrome compared to that of parents without a child with special needs. METHODS The sample consisted of primiparae women who ga...

objectives: cerebral palsy (cp) describes a group of disorders in the development of movement and posture in the developing brain. the main aim of this study was to determine the distribution of motor impairment and associated disorders in a population of children with cp. methods: this study was carried out in 2011 during three months, on 200 cp children. multiple sources of ascertainment were...