Mental Health and Health Behaviour Changes for Mothers of Children with a Disability : Effectiveness of a Health and Wellbeing Workshop

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Healthy Mothers Healthy Families (HMHF) is a program that educates and empowers mothers of children with disabilities to improve health behaviours. Outcomes were investigated in this study. A pre, post-test design was implemented using online questionnaires including the Health promoting activities scale (HPAS) and the Depressional anxiety stress scales (DASS). Mothers (N = 71) experienced improvements in HPAS scores, p < .001. Mental health symptomatology reduced: depressive symptoms (p = .005), Anxiety symptoms (p = .005) and stress (p = .002). Wellbeing improved (p < .001). Mothers also reported that their child with a disability experienced an increase in quality of life (p = .042). Mothers' lifestyles goals improved: managing stress; dietary changes; leisure; self-perception and others. HMHF is an effective intervention with improved health status and outcomes for mothers.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:52

Enthalten in:

Journal of autism and developmental disorders - 52(2022), 2 vom: 17. Feb., Seite 508-521

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Bourke-Taylor, Helen M [VerfasserIn]
Joyce, Kahli S [VerfasserIn]
Grzegorczyn, Sarah [VerfasserIn]
Tirlea, Loredana [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Childhood disability
Journal Article
Mental health
Mothers
Wellbeing

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Date Completed 07.02.2022

Date Revised 18.02.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s10803-021-04956-3

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM322851270