چکیده:
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the Effectiveness of group Coping Skills training on reducing stress of mothers with mentally retarded children's.
Methods: The research method was quasi experimental with pre-test and post-test design with a control group. Population of the study was all of the mothers of mentally retarded children's that referred to welfare organization centers in Tehran. The sample was 44 mothers of mentally retarded children's that randomly selected from participations that had inclusion criteria. They were placed randomly in case group (22 mothers) and control group (22 mothers). Case group received 12 session’s of coping skills training, while control group didn’t receive any intervention.
Results: The results showed that case group had significantly decreased in stress level after intervention than control group (P<0.001).
Discussion: Results of this study indicated that coping skills training for decreasing stress level of mothers with mentally retarded children's is effective. Based on the results, coping skills training can be considered an effective program for prevention of stress and promoting coping skills in mothers with mentally retarded children's.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Original Article The Effectiveness of Group Coping Skills training on reducing stress of mothers with disabled children Shirin Valizadeh, Islamic Azad University, Tehran Markaz Branch, Tehran Rahman Berdi Ozouni Davaji, Asghar Dadkhah, PhD.
1 University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the Effectiveness of group Coping Skills training on reducing stress of mothers with mentally retarded children's.
Conclusion: Results of this study indicated that coping skills training for decreasing stress level of mothers with mentally retarded children is effective.
Based on the results, coping skills training can be considered an effective program for prevention of stress and promoting coping skills in mothers with mentally retarded children.
Results of studies in the effectiveness of coping skills training on the stress level of mothers of children's with disabilities inconsistent.
For example, the study results (14), the asthmatic children's mothers taught skills coping, did not show any significant difference between the two groups after the intervention.
For example results of one Study (17) indicated that group training of positive parenting program can reduce the level of mother’s stress.
According to the these studies, this study, is trying to answer this question that the coping skills training as a strategy for reducing and coping with stress in mothers of disabled child is effective or not?
This result indicated that coping skills training in reducing of stress level of mothers with mentally retarded children is effective.
Finally, you can check that the coping skills training in reducing stress levels of parents of children with mental retardation is effective.