Expressed Emotions and Parent’s Attitudes Toward their Children with Autism | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Article 61, Volume 11, Issue 4, December 2020, Pages 1019-1032 | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2020.216676 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Hend Karem Mahmoud1; Rania Abdel-Hamid Zaki,2; Hoda Sayed Mohammed3 | ||
| 1Demonstrator, Faculty of Nursing Ain Shams University | ||
| 2Assistant Professor, Faculty of Nursing Ain Shams University | ||
| 3lecturer of (Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing Ain Shams University). | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Parenting a child with autism spectrum disorder represents an extraordinary challenge to parents of children with autism, thus, they continue to have high levels of stress and burden which consequently affect their expressed emotion and attitude toward their children. Aim: This study aimed to assess the expressed emotions and parents’ attitudes toward their children with autism. Design: A descriptive explanatory research design was utilized in this study. Setting: This study was carried out in the outpatient clinic of the Institute of Psychiatry affiliated with Ain Shams University. Subjects: This study was conducted on 100 parents of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Sample type: Purposive sample was recruited for this study. Data collection tools: Data were obtained through three tools; 1) Interviewing Questionnaire to assess socio- demographic data of children with autism and their parents, 2) The expressed emotions Questionnaire and 3) The family attitude scale. Results: The majority (81%) of the studied parents had high levels of expressed emotions, and only less than one fifth (18%) of them had low levels of expressed emotions and nearly three quarters (72%) of them had a negative attitude toward their children with autism. Conclusions: The total levels of expressed emotions among most of the parents of children with autism under study were high and the most affected component of EE is over-involvement followed by hostility and criticism. Nearly three-quarters of them had negative attitudes toward their children with autism. Also, this study concluded that there is a high correlation between levels of expressed emotions and attitude of the studied parents of children with autism. Recommendations: Utilization of our study results in designing and implementing counseling programs for parents of children with autism to change their attitudes and manage their expressed emotions | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Autism Spectrum Disorder; Expressed Emotion; Parents | ||
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