The influence of selected sociodemographic data on coping with stress by parents of hospitalized children

Journal Title: Family Medicine & Primary Care Review - Year 2017, Vol 19, Issue 1

Abstract

family unit and weakens the sense of safety. In stressful situations, everyone adopts certain behaviors that are defined as a stress-coping style. Objectives. The aim of the study was to analyze factors which contribute to the choice of a stress-coping style by parents of hospitalized children. Material and methods. This survey-based study was conducted among 292 parents of children hospitalized in the General and Neurological Pediatric Ward of the Voivodeship Independent Public Hospital in Gorzow Wielkopolski. The research instruments were: the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CI SS) – a standard questionnaire for measuring one’s ability to cope with difficult situations, developed by N. S. Endler & J. D. A. Parker, and a questionnaire of the authors’ own design. Results. The parents of hospitalized children employed all types of stress-coping strategies, but task-oriented coping was the most common (41.10%). Education was the only sociodemographic factor that had a statistically significant influence on the parents’ choices of stress-coping styles (p < 0.01). Conclusions. 1. Most frequently, parents of ill and hospitalized children adopt a task-oriented coping style. 2. Parents’ education significantly contributes to their choice of a stress-coping style

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Małgorzata Starczewska, Anna Wałdoch, Katarzyna Augustyniuk, Marzanna Stanisławska, Elżbieta Grochans

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Małgorzata Starczewska, Anna Wałdoch, Katarzyna Augustyniuk, Marzanna Stanisławska, Elżbieta Grochans (2017). The influence of selected sociodemographic data on coping with stress by parents of hospitalized children. Family Medicine & Primary Care Review, 19(1), 59-61. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-208646