Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
J Med Life. 2023 Nov;16(11):1646-1651. doi: 10.25122/jml-2023-0261.
Parenting a child with autism represents an extraordinary challenge for families, resulting in prominent levels of stress and burden that subsequently affect their expressed emotions. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of counseling intervention on stress and expressed emotions among family caregivers of children with autism. The research used a pre-post interventional design, to evaluate 40 family caregivers of children with autism. The interviewing questionnaire assessed socio-demographic data, expressed emotions, and parenting stress, revealing that 57.5% of the evaluated family caregivers had severe stress pre-counseling, compared to 25% post-counseling intervention. Additionally, 80% of them had elevated levels of expressed emotions pre-counseling, compared to 32.5% during the post-counseling intervention. Most family caregivers of children with autism experienced significant levels of expressed emotions, and over half of them had severe levels of stress. However, these levels decreased following the implementation of the counseling interventions. Furthermore, there were highly statistically significant correlations between the total levels of expressed emotions and total stress levels among family caregivers before and after the implementation of the counseling intervention.
养育自闭症儿童对家庭来说是一个巨大的挑战，会给他们带来巨大的压力和负担，进而影响他们的情绪表达。本研究旨在评估咨询干预对自闭症儿童家庭照顾者压力和情绪表达的影响。该研究采用了前后干预设计，评估了 40 名自闭症儿童的家庭照顾者。访谈问卷评估了社会人口统计学数据、情绪表达和育儿压力，结果显示，57.5%的被评估家庭照顾者在咨询前有严重的压力，而咨询后这一比例为 25%。此外，80%的人在咨询前有较高的情绪表达水平，而咨询后这一比例为 32.5%。大多数自闭症儿童的家庭照顾者都经历了高度的情绪表达，其中超过一半的人压力严重。然而，在实施咨询干预后，这些水平有所下降。此外，在实施咨询干预前后，家庭照顾者的总情绪表达水平和总压力水平之间存在高度显著的相关性。
