Concordance within parent couples' perception of parental stress symptoms among parents to 1-18-year-olds with physical or mental health problems.

ABSTRACT: Parents of children with physical or mental health problems are at higher risk for experiencing parental stress. However, mothers and fathers may experience parental stress differently. The aim was to examine whether mothers and fathers of children with physical and/or mental health problems are equally inclined within the couples to experience different aspects of parental stress when considering child and parent couple characteristics. Single aspects of Parental stress were assessed with nine items from the Parental Stress Scale in 197 parent couples of children aged 1-18 years with physical and/or mental health problems. Agreement within parent couples for each item was tested using two tests of marginal homogeneity for dependent data: a nominal G2-test and an ordinal γ-test. Analyses w

SUBMITTER: Rayce SB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7748276 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature