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A Comparative Study of Psychiatric Disorders Among Mothers of Children With Chronic Diseases and Mothers of Healthy Children Publisher



Shahraki ZE1 ; Efffatpanah M2 ; Gray S3 ; Radfar M4 ; Rezaei M5 ; Hekmat H2 ; Radfar S6
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  1. 1. Department of Clinical Psychology, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran
  2. 2. School of Medicine, Ziaeian hospital, International Campus, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  3. 3. Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  4. 4. Imam Hossein Medical Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran
  5. 5. Orthopedic Surgery Department, School of medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
  6. 6. Bagiyatallah Hospital, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Source: Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Science Published:2017


Abstract

The current study was conducted to compare the psychiatric disorders in mothers of children with a chronic disease with mothers of healthy children. The study was observational-analytical case-control study. The study population included mothers of chronically ill children who were hospitalized in internal wards of the Tehran Children Medical Center and mothers of normal children who referred to the Dental Clinic of this center. For sampling, convenience sampling method was used and127 mothers were selected (65 mothers of healthy children and 62 mothers of ill children). The instrument used was SCL-90-R and demographic questionnaires. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and multivariate analysis of variance. The results showed that mothers of children with chronic disease had a significant difference in all components of psychiatric disorders (P < 0.05) with mothers of healthy children. 55.2% percent of mothers of ill children had morbid psychiatric versus 34.5% of mothers in the control group. © 2017 Zohreh Eskandari Shahraki et al.