Prevalence and predictors of stress and social impact among parents with Neural tube defect children who have follow up in public hospitals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2021
| dc.contributor.advisor | Dr.Murugan, Rajalakshmi(PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Abebe, Fikrtemariam (BSC, MSC) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tamiru, Eyerusalem | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-01T12:12:22Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-06T09:01:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-11-01T12:12:22Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-06T09:01:59Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Background- Neural Tube Defects are congenital anomalies of the brain, spinal cord and their surrounding structures. Parents face extreme stress at the diagnosis of NTDs since they are challenged with either the misery of a termination, stillbirth or the lifelong psychological, social and financial challenges of caring for a child with NTDs. Objective-To determine prevalence and predictors of stress and social impact among parents with Neural tube defect children who have follow up in public hospitals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2021. Method- Institution based cross sectional study was implemented on 369 parents with neural tube defect children in three selected Addis Ababa public hospital by using purposive sampling technique. A structured questionnaire was used for data collection on socio-demographic characteristics and other independent variables, data on stress was collected by Parent Stress Index Short Form Likert scale and social impact data was collected using medical outcome study social support survey Likert scale tool. Data was entered and coded with Epi data v4.6 and cleaned and analyzed using SPSS 25. Level of significance was determined using p<0.05. Final results is presented by text, graph, and tables. Result- All 369 respondents were participated in this study and the response rate was 100%. The mean age of the respondent was 29.38 ± 5.64. Eighty one percent of the respondents were mothers. Among the children 57.5% were male and 19.5% of children with the age of 2-5 years. 17.6% of the parents with neural tube defect children were stressed and 26.3% had social impact. Parental stress were associated with motherhood, urine incontinence, shunt insertion and use of clean intermittent catheterization, while parental social impact associated with higher parental age, bowel dysfunction, use of clean intermittent catheterization, shunt utilization and paraplegia. Conclusion and Recommendation- There is stress and social impact among parents with neural tube defect children and its extremely under-recognized and not managed by health care professionals. Study finding recommend that stress and social impact of parents with neural tube defect children should be diagnosed early and managed appropriately. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/28462 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Abeba University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Neural tube defect, stress, social impact, parents | en_US |
| dc.title | Prevalence and predictors of stress and social impact among parents with Neural tube defect children who have follow up in public hospitals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2021 | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |