Quality of life, health satisfaction and family impact on caregivers of children with developmental delays
Objective To study the quality of life, health satisfaction and family impact on caregivers of children with developmental delays in Taiwan. Design Cross‐sectional study. Subjects The caregivers of children with diagnoses of developmental delays recruited from a teaching hospital in northern Taiw...
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Published in | Child : care, health & development Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 243 - 249 |
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Main Authors | , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Oxford, UK
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
01.03.2009
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Summary: | Objective To study the quality of life, health satisfaction and family impact on caregivers of children with developmental delays in Taiwan.
Design Cross‐sectional study.
Subjects The caregivers of children with diagnoses of developmental delays recruited from a teaching hospital in northern Taiwan.
Methods The main caregivers of 48 male and 22 female children with developmental delays were recruited. WHOQOL‐BREF for health‐related quality of life (HRQOL), PedsQL‐Health Satisfaction for health satisfaction, PedsQL‐Family Impact Module and Impact on Family Scale for family impact were evaluated. The correlation of caregivers' HRQOL, health satisfaction and family impact were also studied.
Results Caregivers in nuclear families had higher health satisfaction scores (78.2 for nuclear families vs. 66.9 for extended families, P < 0.05) when assessed by the PedQL‐Health Satisfaction questionnaire. Children's age was negatively correlated with family impact, including parent (−0.272, P = 0.023), family (−0.262, P = 0.029) and total scores (−0.281, P = 0.018) as assessed using the PedsQL‐Family Impact Module.
Conclusion A negative relation between impact of burden and child's age suggests that family members gradually adapt to the delayed developmental status in their children as they grow. Caregivers in nuclear families having higher health satisfaction than those in extended families may be due to Chinese cultural effects. |
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Bibliography: | ArticleID:CCH927 ark:/67375/WNG-8HKN6S11-0 istex:6498A23684D60B1E34A5FDC3A770C34103046365 ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 ObjectType-Article-2 ObjectType-Feature-1 |
ISSN: | 0305-1862 1365-2214 |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1365-2214.2008.00927.x |