Factors associated with family risk of children with special health care needs

Autor: Aline Cristiane Cavicchioli Okido, Eliane Tatsch Neves, Giovana Natali Cavicchioli, Leonardo Bigolin Jantsch, Fernanda Portela Pereira, Regina Aparecida Garcia Lima
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP, Vol 52, Iss 0 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1980-220X
1980-220x
DOI: 10.1590/s1980-220x2017048703377
Popis: ABSTRACT Objective: To identify the factors associated with family risk of children with special health care needs. Methods: Bicentric study, with a cross-sectional design and a quantitative approach, with family caregivers of children with special health care needs. Instruments were applied to obtain a sociodemographic characterization, and identify and classify the family risk. For analysis between variables, Mann-Whitney and Fisher’s exact tests were used and the Spearman’s correlation coefficient was calculated. Results: One hundred and eighteen caregivers participated in the study. The average family risk score was 3.53 (±3.76), with a median of 3.0, and minimum and maximum values of 0 and 16, respectively, with no significant difference between the two studied Brazilian municipalities. In municipality 1, the number of siblings presented a positive correlation with the average family risk score (0.011, p
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