Measurement instruments for parental stress in the postpartum period: A scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Parenting stress is a particular type of stress that is conceptualized as a negative psychological response to the numerous obligations associated with raising children. Despite a considerable increase in research on parenting stress, little attention has been given to the ways parenting stress are measured.

Objectives

This scoping review aimed to provide an overview of available instruments measuring parental stress and to describe their psychometric properties.

Methods

We conducted a scoping review in accordance with international guidelines for scoping reviews. The main search strategy was searches in seven electronic databases. Pairs of reviewers selected relevant studies based on predetermined inclusion and exclusion criteria. Studies had to report one

SUBMITTER: Oygarden AU 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8932572 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature