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Health Correlates of Abuse History and Moderating Effect of Parenting Stress for Mothers with Mental Disorders
- Source :
- Issues Ment Health Nurs
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2020.
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Abstract
- Parenting stress is common and may lead to worsening health, particularly in the context of other risk factors such as mental disorders or a history of abuse. This study investigated how parenting-related stress impacts the effect of abuse experiences on health among mothers with mental health disorders. Survey data was analyzed from 172 predominantly Hispanic mothers receiving outpatient behavioral health services. Most (80.2%) mothers had experienced abuse. Those reporting childhood abuse had 3.82 greater odds of experiencing abuse in adulthood. Findings demonstrated worse health outcomes among those experiencing abuse in both childhood and adulthood and those with a greater number of abuse experiences. Caregiving load intensified the relationship between abuse and anxiety and sleep disturbance. Parenting self-agency intensified the relationship between abuse and cigarette use. These findings have important implications for mental health nursing practice by identifying parenting-stress as an important target for interventions to improve health among women with histories of abuse and mental health disorders.
- Subjects :
- Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Psychological intervention
MEDLINE
Mothers
Context (language use)
Article
Odds
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Risk Factors
Humans
Medicine
Child Abuse
Child
Psychiatry
Sleep disorder
Parenting
030504 nursing
business.industry
Parenting stress
medicine.disease
Mental health
Mother-Child Relations
030227 psychiatry
Anxiety
Female
Pshychiatric Mental Health
medicine.symptom
0305 other medical science
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10964673 and 01612840
- Volume :
- 42
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Issues in Mental Health Nursing
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....25d3d618d20424e7e5922855e8d4d47e