Stress, coping behaviors and related-factors in mothers of child with ADHD at Out Patient Department of Child Psychiatric Clinic, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital
Abstract:
This was a descriptive study. Data was collected from 104 mothers of child with ADHD at Out Patient Department of Child Psychiatric Clinic, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital. They were asked to complete 4 questionnaires, namely: 1) Personal information questionnaire; 2) ADHD knowledge questionnaire; 3) Suanprung Stress Test-20; 4) The coping behavior questionnaire. The SPSS version 22 were used to analysed to find the descriptive and inferential statistics to demonstrate the associated factors of stress and coping behaviors of the sample, including Chi-square test, t-test and One-way ANOVA, Pearsons correlation coefficient , Multiple Regression Analysis and Linear Regression Analysis were done to find predictive factors of stress and coping behaviors. The results showed that the mothers of child with ADHD had level of stress at moderate level and used problem-focused coping behaviors. The factors associated with problem-focused coping behaviors were the maternal ages, family income and knowledge about ADHD. The predictive factors for problem-focused coping behaviors were family income and knowledge about ADHD.