The associations between resilience and socio-demographic factors in parents who care for their children with congenital heart disease.
| Autor: | Delaney AE; Boston College, William F. Connell School of Nursing, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA., Fu MR; Rutgers University, School of Nursing-Camden, Camden, NJ, USA., McTernan ML; Boston College, Academic Research Services, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA., Marshall AC; University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada., Lindberg J; The Ethan M. Lindberg Foundation, Caledonia, IL, USA., Thiagarajan RR; Harvard Medical School, Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA., Zhou Z; Xiamen University School of Economics & the Chow Center, Xiamen, China., Luo J; Boston College, Boston College Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Library, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA., Glazer S; The University of Baltimore, Yale Gordon College of Arts & Sciences Baltimore, MD, USA. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | International journal of nursing sciences [Int J Nurs Sci] 2022 Jun 17; Vol. 9 (3), pp. 321-327. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jun 17 (Print Publication: 2022). |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ijnss.2022.06.003 |
| Abstrakt: | Objective: To examine the resilience of parents of children with congenital heart disease and to investigate socio-demographic factors that may influence parents' resilience. Methods: This is a web-based survey study using a cross-sectional design. A purposive sampling method was utilized to recruit 515 parents who care for children with congenital heart disease. Resilience was assessed using the Dispositional Resilience Scale-Ⅱ. Based on expert-interviews, a questionnaire was designed to collect socio-demographic data. Descriptive statistics, factor analysis, and linear regressions were used to analyze data. Results: A total of 413 parents completed the survey study. The mean resilience score was 3.75 ( SD = 0.61; range = 1.89-4.89) with higher scores indicating higher resilience. The linear regression models demonstrated that parents who had lower education levels and lower gross household income had lower resilience ( P < 0.05). Conclusions: Parents reported resilience that reflected their ability to cope with stressful events and mitigate stressors associated with having and caring for children with congenital heart disease. Lower education levels and lower gross household income are associated with lower resilience. To increase parents' resilience, nursing practice and nurse-led interventions should target screening and providing support for parents at-risk for lower resilience. As lower education level and financial hardship are factors that are difficult to modify through personal efforts, charitable foundations, federal and state governments should consider programs that would provide financial and health literacy support for parents at-risk for lower resilience. Competing Interests: Authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. (© 2022 The Authors.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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