BACKGROUND Children with disabilities in Sub-Saharan Africa depend for a large part of their functioning on their parent or caregiver. This study explores parental stress and support of parents of children with spina bifida in Uganda. OBJECTIVES The study aimed to explore perceived stress and support of parents of children with spina bifida living in Uganda and the factors that influence them...

The mismatch between employed parents’ work schedules and their children’s school schedules creates the structural underpinning for an as-yet-unstudied stressor, namely, parental afterschool stress, or the degree of parents’ concern about their children’s welfare after school. We estimate the relationship between parental afterschool stress and psychological well-being in a sample of 243 employ...

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...

This study examined the impact and predictive ability of parental personality and perceived stress on behavior problems of their deaf child. One hundred and fourteen parents with a deaf child completed measures of personality, parenting stress, and child behavioral functioning. Higher parental neuroticism, which reflects a susceptibility to emotional and psychological distress, significantly pr...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the psychological burden of parents facing increasing risk of type 1 diabetes in their children. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS In the population-based Type 1 Diabetes Prediction and Prevention (DIPP) Study, newborn infants with HLA-DQB1-conferred diabetes risk were enrolled in sequential analyses of diabetes-associated autoantibodies. Those persistently positive for at lea...

trying to reduce clinical problems in children autism through education of parents in recent years has been addressed by researchers. this study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of training of pivotal response treatment (prt) to mothers with 6 to 12 year old autistic children on reducing the autism symptoms. also, the impact of prt on reduction of parenting stress was addressed in this st...

Families of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) experience significant stress relative to other families. To date, little research has examined the relationship between social support, family resilience and parental stress in families with a child diagnosed with ASD. This study explored the links between perceived social support, family resilience and parental stress in a sample of 50...

Large individual differences in adolescent mental health following chronic psychosocial stress suggest moderating factors. We examined two established moderators, basal cortisol and parental psychiatric history, simultaneously. We hypothesized that individuals with high basal cortisol, assumed to indicate high context sensitivity, would show relatively high problem levels following chronic stre...

The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on reducing internalizing symptoms in children and reducing parental stress (PS) in mothers. Research design of this study was Quasi-experimental research with a pre/post test design with a control group. Using cluster sampling from among all the school children of the 2013-2014 school year at Isfa...