BACKGROUND The importance of positive parent-adolescent relationships is stressed in research on adolescents, although very little is known about this relationship when a teen has developmental disabilities (DD). We investigated the relationships of adolescents with disabilities with their mothers and their fathers in order to answer a number of questions regarding these relationships. In parti...

BACKGROUND Due to the various problems of children with autism, their families and especially their mothers become exposed to stress. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to evaluate the effect of cognitive behavior group therapy on parenting stress of mothers of children with autism. MATERIALS AND METHODS The sample of this research consisted of sixteen mothers of children with autism. The measurem...

Background: Parents of preterm neonates are exposed to great stress that can lead to posttraumatic stress disorder. The current study aimed to assess the incidence of posttraumatic stress disorders (PTSD) in both mothers and fathers of preterm infants.Methods: A prospective cohort study was done at two Iranian hospitals in 2016. One hundred and sixty parents of preterm neonates entered th...

We give an alternative proof and improve upon a result of S.M. Kozlov [7]. It deals with the asymptotic of the integrated density of states of the acoustic operator Hω = −∇ρω∇, at the bottom of the spectrum. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification :81Q10, 35P05, 37A30, 47F05.

The present study was designed to assess and compare parenting stress and family burden in mothers of children with disabilities and children without disability. For this purpose, a multi group design was adopted which consisted of five groups of mothers viz. mothers of children with mental disability, mothers of children with both mental and physical disability, mothers of children with physic...

Parents of children with hearing impairment tend to exhibit “depression” a known stress related response. Mothers of hearing impaired child are more prone than fathers to experience depression [1,2]. In addition, these mothers are found to be less successful in cultivating language and psychological development of their children. The study aimed to measure pre and post cochlear implantation (CI...

OBJECTIVES We examined the associations of intimate partner violence (IPV) and maternal risk factors with maternal child maltreatment risk within a diverse sample of mothers. METHODS We derived the study sample (N=2508) from the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study. We conducted regression analyses to examine associations between IPV, parenting stress, major depression, key covariates,...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to examine the differences between mothers of preterm multiples and mothers of preterm singletons regarding perceived stress and maternal psychological symptoms, and to explore the putative adverse amplified effect of socioeconomic disadvantage. METHOD Ninety-five mothers of 1-year-olds born preterm participated in this cross-sectional study. Data collection was car...