Department of Sciences in Quantitative Economics, Philosophy and Education, Gabriele D'Annunzio University, Chieti-Pescara, Italy.
Epilepsy Behav. 2013 Oct;29(1):222-7. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2013.07.020.
The aim of the present work was to measure the amount of stress in parents of children with epilepsy and to determine whether and how parenting stress is linked to behavioral symptoms of the children. Parenting stress was measured with the Parenting Stress Index (PSI) and behavioral symptoms with the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL). Data obtained from 26 parents of children with epilepsy were compared with those obtained from 31 parents of healthy children. Children with epilepsy obtained higher scores in all the subscales of PSI and in almost all the subscales of CBCL compared with healthy children. Epilepsy caused a high level of parenting stress and of problematic behaviors since the behavioral symptoms predicting the degree of parenting stress significantly differed between healthy children and children with epilepsy. Therefore, parents of children with epilepsy should be offered psychological support to cope with parenting stress and to improve the relationship with their children.
本研究旨在测量癫痫患儿父母的压力程度，并确定父母压力与儿童行为症状之间的关系。父母压力采用父母压力指数（PSI）进行测量，行为症状采用儿童行为检查表（CBCL）进行测量。将 26 名癫痫患儿的父母与 31 名健康儿童的父母进行了比较。与健康儿童相比，癫痫患儿在 PSI 的所有分量表和 CBCL 的几乎所有分量表中得分都更高。癫痫会导致高水平的育儿压力和行为问题，因为预测父母压力程度的行为症状在健康儿童和癫痫患儿之间存在显著差异。因此，应向癫痫患儿的父母提供心理支持，以应对育儿压力并改善与子女的关系。
