Relationship between Psychological Well-Being and Coping Strategies among Family Caregivers of Children with Down syndrome | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Article 10, Volume 11, Issue 4, December 2020, Pages 155-172 PDF (315.42 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2020.125752 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Amgad Said Mohammed; Sahar Mahmoud Eliwa; Rania Abdel-Hamid Zaki | ||
| Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Faculty of Nursing Ain Shams University. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Rearing a child with Down Syndrome requires use of effective coping strategies that may have a buffering effect on psychological well-being of family caregivers. Aim: This study aimed to assess the relationship between psychological well-being and coping strategies among family caregivers of children with Down syndrome. Design: A descriptive research design was utilized in this study. Setting: This study was carried out in the Genes Clinics of DS in the specialized clinics of the university pediatric hospital affiliated to Ain Shams University Hospitals. Subjects: A sample of 120 family caregivers of children with Down syndrome. The study tools were: 1) Interviewing Questionnaire, 2) Ryff’s Psychological well-being scale (1989) and 3) Brief-COPE inventory (Carver, 1997). The results: The study showed that family caregivers of children with DS combined between emotion-focused and problem focused coping strategies in managing burden of child caregiving and the most frequent used emotion focused coping strategies were acceptance and religion while the most frequent used problem-focused coping strategy was use of instrumental support. Concerning to psychological well-being, near two thirds of family caregivers of children with DS had psychological well-being less than usual. Conclusions: There was a negative significant correlation between level of psychological well-being and emotion-focused coping strategies except for use of emotional support, acceptance, self distraction, venting, humor and religion. Meanwhile, there was a positive significant correlation between level of psychological well-being and problem-focused coping strategies except for positive reframing. Recommendations: Future research to assess factors that may influence role of caregiving and different challenges faced by family caregivers in rearing different aged children with DS. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| psychological wellbeing; coping strategies; Down syndrome | ||
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