Some sources of stress found in mothers of spina bifida children.
Open Access
- 1 March 1975
- journal article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
- Vol. 29 (1) , 27-30
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.29.1.27
Abstract
The scores on a malaise inventory for 51 mothers of spina bifida children born between 1956 and 1962 in South Wales revealed significantly higher scores when the child was incontinent, had a severe locomotor disability, had an IQ less than 80, and was attending a special school rather than a normal school. No difference in scores was found between the sexes or for size of family, and only a slight difference occurred between the malaise scores of mothers of mildly and moderately handicapped children.Keywords
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