Asian Nursing Research
Volume 1, Issue 2 , Pages 116-124, September 2007

Parenting Stress in Mothers of Children with Congenital Heart Disease

  • Sunhee Lee, RN, MSN

      Affiliations

    • PhD Candidate, College of Nursing, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Sunhee Lee, RN, MSN, College of Nursing, Yonsei University, 134 Sinchon-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-752, Korea
    • ,
  • Ji-Soo Yoo, RN, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Professor, College of Nursing, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
    • ,
  • Il-Young Yoo, RN, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Professor, College of Nursing, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Article Outline

Purpose

The main purposes of this study were to examine the relationships among uncertainty, social support and parenting stress in mothers of children with congenital heart disease (CHD) and to identify the factors related to parenting stress.

Methods

This was a survey study using a questionnaire. Fifty-one mothers of children with CHD were recruited at the pediatric cardiac outpatient clinic at one university-affiliated hospital in Seoul between July 14th and September 25th, 2006. Abidin's Parenting Stress Index–Short Form, Mishel's Parents' Perception Uncertainty in Illness Scale, and Brandt and Weinert's Personal Resource Questionnaire were used to collect data.

Results

The results of bivariate analysis showed that parenting stress was significantly related to social support, ambiguity, lack of clarity, and lack of information, but was not related to unpredictability, one of the subconcepts of uncertainty. Multiple regression analysis showed that parenting stress was significantly related to social support and Internet information.

Conclusion

Mothers who reported they had more social support and less uncertainty showed lower parenting stress. Also, the Internet could be an effective method to obtain information and to share child-rearing experiences with other mothers of children with CHD.

Key Words:  congenital heart disease , parenting , stress , uncertainty

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doi:10.1016/S1976-1317(08)60014-6

Asian Nursing Research
Volume 1, Issue 2 , Pages 116-124, September 2007

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