The Effect of the Mother-Child Development Promotion Program for the Child with Developmental Delay on Mother's Depressive Mood and Parenting Stress.
- Author:
Hong Sup YU
1
;
Soon Jeong LEE
;
Dong Ho SONG
Author Information
1. Seoul Metropolitan Eun-Pyeong Hospital, Seoul, Korea. sunny0929@gmail.com
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Mother-child Attachment Promotion Program;
Developmental Delay;
K-BDI;
K-PSI-SF
- MeSH:
Child;
Child Development;
Depression;
Humans;
Mothers;
Parenting;
Parents
- From:Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
2009;20(3):152-157
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
OBJECTIVES: We investigated the parenting stress and depressive mood of mothers with developmentally-delayed children and the effects of participation in a mother-child development promotion program on same. METHODS: Subjects were the mothers of 20 developmentally-delayed children. The severity of the mothers' parenting stress was evaluated via the Korean version of the Parenting Stress Index, Short Form (K-PSI-SF) and the severity of their depressive symptoms were evalueted by the Korean version of the Beck Depression Inventory (K-BDI). RESULTS: The mean K-PSI-SF score and mean K-BDI score for these mothers were 93.35 (SD=10.47) and 23.25 (SD=10.42), respectively. These scores correspond to high parenting stress and moderate depression. The mothers who participated in a mother-child attachment- promotion program showed significant decreases in their K-PSI-SF and KBDI scores. CONCLUSION: Our data suggest that a mother-child attachment promotion program with emphasis on child development is effective in reducing parenting stress and depressive mood in mothers of developmentally-delayed children.
