INTRODUCTION Hospital anxiety and surgery has an unpleasant and disturbing feeling for a child and his/her family. This study aimed to determine the effect of toys and visit in reducing children's anxiety before the surgery and their mothers and satisfaction with the treatment process. METHODS This was a quasi-experimental study in posttest design with a control group. 60 children aged 3 to 8...

OBJECTIVES The aims of this study are to 1) assess parent satisfaction with well-child care for their young child and 2) identify how global satisfaction ratings and parent reports on the processes of care vary with child and family characteristics, health care received, and health system factors. METHODS The National Survey of Early Childhood Health is a telephone survey that used a stratifi...

OBJECTIVE To use Nath et al.'s (1991) conceptual model of adolescent parenting to examine the relationship between resiliency factors measured shortly after delivery and maternal parenting behavior at 6 months. METHOD We recruited 181 first-time, adolescent African American mothers at delivery. Data on resiliency factors (maturity, self-esteem, and mother-grandmother relationships) were colle...

Title of Document: FIRST BABY, FIRST YEAR: GRATITUDE AND EMOTIONAL APPROACH COPING AS PREDICTORS OF ADJUSTMENT AND LIFE SATISFACTION DURING THE TRANSITION TO MOTHERHOOD Sarah Piontkowski, Master of Arts, 2011 Directed By: Mary Ann Hoffman, Ph.D. Professor Department of Counseling and Personnel Services Becoming a mother is one of the most common major life transitions, with approximately 82% of...

To date, most research with families who have a child with developmental disabilities has been undertaken in English speaking countries. Poorer health, allied with increased levels of stress has been commonly reported for mothers but less is known about the impact on fathers and on overall family functioning. This study aimed to document the correlates of these parental impacts with Iranian mot...

background: job stress is one of the most leading factors causing physical and mental symptoms as well as midwives job discontent and it will consequently lead to decrease service quality. as mental and physical health of midwives can affect the health of mothers and babies directly and indirectly, thus, current study is aimed to explore the relationship between job stress and job satisfaction ...

We examined the wear-and-tear hypothesis using data from 4 annual interviews with 130 (128 White) middle-aged daughters caring for their physically impaired, elderly mothers. We formulated a latent growth curve model hypothesizing that increases in the amount of care given by daughters caused a decrease in caregiving satisfaction, independent of caregiving duration. We found considerable indivi...