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Quality of life and associated factors in siblings of children with severe motor and intellectual disabilities: A crossâsectional study.
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Nursing & Health Sciences . Dec2020, Vol. 22 Issue 4, p977-987. 11p. - Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- This study examined quality of life and its associated factors in siblings of children with severe motor and intellectual disabilities in Japan. The participants were 789 siblings of children with a disability and their primary caregivers. We used the Kinder Lebensqualität Fragebogen questionnaire to assess the quality of life of siblings. The mean age of the siblings was 12.21 ± 3.07 years, and the mean quality of life score was 69.63 ± 12.55 points, which is higher than that of the general population of children of the same age. It was revealed that the following factors contributed to higher quality of life scores: a closer relationship with the child with a disability, younger age, the primary caregiver's lower care burden, later birth order of siblings (i.e., younger siblings), higher family empowerment, and female gender of siblings. The relationship with the child with a disability had the strongest influence on siblings' quality of life. Our study suggests the need for nursing interventions that focus on the whole family to enhance siblings' quality of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *CAREGIVERS
*FAMILIES
*PEOPLE with intellectual disabilities
*MOVEMENT disorders
*QUALITY of life
*QUESTIONNAIRES
*RESEARCH funding
*SELF-efficacy
*STATISTICS
*LOGISTIC regression analysis
*DATA analysis
*CHILDREN with disabilities
*MULTIPLE regression analysis
*CROSS-sectional method
*DATA analysis software
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
*CHILDREN
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14410745
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Nursing & Health Sciences
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 147531748
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/nhs.12755