Stress, anxiety and depressive levels among Mothers of ADHD children and their relationships with ADHD symptoms

Stress, anxiety and depressive levels among Mothers of ADHD children and their relationships with ADHD symptoms

Introduction: To date, there are limited published literatures addressing behaviors of Attention Deficit and Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) children and their parents’ psychological characteristics. It is also crucial to know the relationship between characteristics of ADHD behaviors on their parent...

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Main Authors: Musa, Ramli, Shafiee, Zasmani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: ASEAN Federation Of Psychiatry 2008
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RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
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spelling iium-39982011-12-14T01:17:02Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/3998/ Stress, anxiety and depressive levels among Mothers of ADHD children and their relationships with ADHD symptoms Musa, Ramli Shafiee, Zasmani RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry Introduction: To date, there are limited published literatures addressing behaviors of Attention Deficit and Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) children and their parents’ psychological characteristics. It is also crucial to know the relationship between characteristics of ADHD behaviors on their parental psychological impacts. Objective: To determine the level of stress, anxiety and depressive among mothers of ADHD children compared to control group and also to determine the associations between domains of children’s behaviors (externalizing or internalizing) that gives most impact to these maternal psychological aspects. Method: This is a cross-sectional study. Seventy mothers of ADHD children who came to Child and Adolescent Clinic, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Hospital completed self-rating questionnaires of Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), Parenting Stress Index (PSI) and Hospital Anxiety and Depressive Scale (HADS). Seventy mothers of asthmatic children were recruited as a control group. Results: Mothers with ADHD children are more anxious, depressed and stressed (p<0.001). Odd ratios are 3.8, 6.4 and 6.4 respectively. ADHD children displayed difficult behaviors in almost all CBCL subscales than asthmatic children. Externalizing behavior caused significant anxiety, depressive and stress levels (p<0.05), whereas internalizing behaviors caused significant in stress level but not to anxiety and depressive levels. Conclusions: Mothers of ADHD children are more psychologically distressed. Their psychological distress is contributed mainly by externalizing behaviors of their ADHD children. ASEAN Federation Of Psychiatry 2008 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/3998/1/1.ADHD_ASEAN.pdf Musa, Ramli and Shafiee, Zasmani (2008) Stress, anxiety and depressive levels among Mothers of ADHD children and their relationships with ADHD symptoms. ASEAN Journal of Psychiatry, 8 (1). pp. 20-28. ISSN 2231-7805 http://www.med.cmu.ac.th/dept/psychiatry/AJP_Contents-vol%208-1.htm
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topic RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
spellingShingle RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Musa, Ramli
Shafiee, Zasmani
Stress, anxiety and depressive levels among Mothers of ADHD children and their relationships with ADHD symptoms
description Introduction: To date, there are limited published literatures addressing behaviors of Attention Deficit and Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) children and their parents’ psychological characteristics. It is also crucial to know the relationship between characteristics of ADHD behaviors on their parental psychological impacts. Objective: To determine the level of stress, anxiety and depressive among mothers of ADHD children compared to control group and also to determine the associations between domains of children’s behaviors (externalizing or internalizing) that gives most impact to these maternal psychological aspects. Method: This is a cross-sectional study. Seventy mothers of ADHD children who came to Child and Adolescent Clinic, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Hospital completed self-rating questionnaires of Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), Parenting Stress Index (PSI) and Hospital Anxiety and Depressive Scale (HADS). Seventy mothers of asthmatic children were recruited as a control group. Results: Mothers with ADHD children are more anxious, depressed and stressed (p<0.001). Odd ratios are 3.8, 6.4 and 6.4 respectively. ADHD children displayed difficult behaviors in almost all CBCL subscales than asthmatic children. Externalizing behavior caused significant anxiety, depressive and stress levels (p<0.05), whereas internalizing behaviors caused significant in stress level but not to anxiety and depressive levels. Conclusions: Mothers of ADHD children are more psychologically distressed. Their psychological distress is contributed mainly by externalizing behaviors of their ADHD children.
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author Musa, Ramli
Shafiee, Zasmani
author_facet Musa, Ramli
Shafiee, Zasmani
author_sort Musa, Ramli
title Stress, anxiety and depressive levels among Mothers of ADHD children and their relationships with ADHD symptoms
title_short Stress, anxiety and depressive levels among Mothers of ADHD children and their relationships with ADHD symptoms
title_full Stress, anxiety and depressive levels among Mothers of ADHD children and their relationships with ADHD symptoms
title_fullStr Stress, anxiety and depressive levels among Mothers of ADHD children and their relationships with ADHD symptoms
title_full_unstemmed Stress, anxiety and depressive levels among Mothers of ADHD children and their relationships with ADHD symptoms
title_sort stress, anxiety and depressive levels among mothers of adhd children and their relationships with adhd symptoms
publisher ASEAN Federation Of Psychiatry
publishDate 2008
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/3998/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/3998/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/3998/1/1.ADHD_ASEAN.pdf
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