What motivates adult children in the United States to care for their disabled parents? This paper examines whether altruism and bequest motives influence adult childrens’ decisions about giving time to care for a disabled parent, giving financial resources, and giving future financial resources. Further, the paper examines the ways these different forms of giving affect caregivers’ overall well...

The aim of this research is to explore whether there are any differences in couple satisfaction and couple attributions between families with disabled and non-disabled children and to understand if a relationship exists among the above-mentioned variables in parents of children with and without disability. Parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (low functioning n = 16; high functioni...

OBJECTIVE To develop a questionnaire to assess parents' experiences and satisfaction with care during very preterm birth. DESIGN Questionnaire development. SETTING Parents whose babies had been cared for at five tertiary neonatal units in England. POPULATION A total of 145 women who gave birth before 32 weeks of gestation, and 85 of their partners. METHODS A 30-item questionnaire was de...

Introduction: This longitudinal case-controlled study examined the effects of universal parent-focused interventions on parents’ perceived competence in terms of parental efficacy and satisfaction. Method: The study sample consisted of parents from northern Sweden in the general population who participated in parent training programmes from 2010 to 2013, and a matched-comparison group. All pare...

OBJECTIVE As paediatric sedation practices are becoming safer and more feasible everyday, they have been widely used for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. This study intended to determine the relation between parental satisfaction and the branches applying procedures and demographic data of the patients and their families, physicians, nurses, and the healthcare personnel in the room. MET...

The objective of this study was to investigate the satisfaction and acceptance of a structured diagnostic interview in clinical practice and in a research setting. Using the Structured Diagnostic Interview for Mental Disorders in Children and Adolescents (Kinder-DIPS), 28 certified interviewers conducted 202 interviews (115 with parents, 87 with children). After each interview, children, parent...

introduction: this study was conducted in order to determine the relationship between attachment to god with marital satisfaction and mental health in parents of children with special needs. method: a total of 372 parents (186 fathers, 186 mothers) of blind, deaf and educable children with mental retardation were selected through stratified random sampling using the method of proportional alloc...

Case management has emerged as an integral component of current efforts to reform the delivery of mental health services to children and youth with Severe Emotional Disturbance (SED). We examined parental satisfaction with one program's case management system for SED children. In order to validfy address parental satisfaction, the program first turned to a group of its parents to develop a sati...

Parents Transmit Happiness along with Associated Values and Behaviors to Their Children: A Lifelong Happiness Dividend? There are strong two-way links between parent and child happiness (life satisfaction), even for ‘children’ who have grown up, moved to their own home and partnered themselves. German panel evidence shows that transmission of (un)happiness from parents to children is partly due...

INTRODUCTION Hypospadias is a male congenital condition where the opening of the urethral meatus is not located in the typical anatomical position. It has been a challenge for empirical studies to ascertain the level of concordance of opinion among parents and urologists with regard to surgical outcomes according to hypospadias severity. MATERIALS AND METHODS Parents of children who had under...