Stress, anxiety and depressive levels among Mothers of ADHD children and their relationships with ADHD symptoms
Introduction: To date, there are limited published literatures addressing behaviors of Attention Deficit and Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) children and their parents’ psychological characteristics. It is also crucial to know the relationship between characteristics of ADHD behaviors on their parent...
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ASEAN Federation Of Psychiatry
2008
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/3998/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/3998/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/3998/1/1.ADHD_ASEAN.pdf |
| Summary: | Introduction: To date, there are limited published literatures addressing behaviors of Attention
Deficit and Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) children and their parents’ psychological
characteristics. It is also crucial to know the relationship between characteristics of ADHD
behaviors on their parental psychological impacts.
Objective: To determine the level of stress, anxiety and depressive among mothers of ADHD
children compared to control group and also to determine the associations between domains
of children’s behaviors (externalizing or internalizing) that gives most impact to these maternal
psychological aspects.
Method: This is a cross-sectional study. Seventy mothers of ADHD children who came to
Child and Adolescent Clinic, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Hospital completed self-rating
questionnaires of Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), Parenting Stress Index (PSI) and Hospital
Anxiety and Depressive Scale (HADS). Seventy mothers of asthmatic children were recruited
as a control group.
Results: Mothers with ADHD children are more anxious, depressed and stressed (p<0.001).
Odd ratios are 3.8, 6.4 and 6.4 respectively. ADHD children displayed difficult behaviors in
almost all CBCL subscales than asthmatic children. Externalizing behavior caused significant
anxiety, depressive and stress levels (p<0.05), whereas internalizing behaviors caused significant
in stress level but not to anxiety and depressive levels.
Conclusions: Mothers of ADHD children are more psychologically distressed. Their psychological
distress is contributed mainly by externalizing behaviors of their ADHD children. |
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