Kronik Hastalığı Olan Çocukların Annelerinin Bakım Verme Yükü ile Anksiyete-Depresyon Düzeyinin Belirlenmesi

Authors : Muradiye Aldem Budak, Emine Geçkil

Pages : 391-399

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Publication Date : 2020-09-01

Article Type : Research

Abstract :Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the factors affecting the caregiving burden and anxiety-depression risk levels in mothers of children with chronic diseases.Methods: The population of the descriptive study consists of mothers whose children are inpatients in the pediatric unit of a university hospital in Konya for chronic diseases. The sample size for this study was calculated as 164 N= 1.962*13.092 /22 . The data were collected by having the voluntary mothers staying in the hospital between November 2016-January 2017 and filling the questionnaire that included sociodemographics, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale HADS and Caregiving Burden Scale. Data were analyzed with frequency, percentage, mean, t-test in independent groups, variance analysis and Tukey HSD test.Results: The mean age of the mothers was 32.54±7.95 and the mean age of the children was 5.70±5.46. The HADS scores were 57.9% of the mothers with anxiety risk and 75.6% with depression. The caregiving burden scores of the mothers were found to be 26.59±12.6 and it associated with live-in villages/towns, unemployed, low income, no support for caregiving, long duration of the disease and frequency of hospitalization p
Keywords : Mother, anxiety-depression, caregiving burden, pediatric nursing, chronic disease