Parenting Stress and Adherence to Occlusion Therapy in the Infant Aphakia Treatment Study: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Using data from the Infant Aphakia Treatment Study, we examined the relationship between adherence to patching and parenting stress.

Methods

Caregivers completed the Parenting Stress Index 3 months after surgery (n = 106), after a visual acuity assessment at 12 months of age (n = 97), and at 4.25 (n = 96) years of age. Patching was reported in quarterly telephone interviews and annual 7-day patching diaries, and averaged across all assessments prior to and in the 6 months following the first stress assessment, and for 6 months before and after the other two stress assessments. The association was assessed using linear regression.

Results

Caregivers reporting the highest stress levels 3 months after surgery (i.e., 75th percentile) subsequen

SUBMITTER: Drews-Botsch C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6322710 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature