Correlations between functional performance, health-related quality of life, and parental impact on children with developmental delays. (June 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hsieh, Ru-Lan; Lin, Ming-I; Huang, Hsiao-Yuan; Lee, Wen-Chung
• Is Part Of: Developmental neurorehabilitation. Volume 17:Number 3(2014:Jun.)
• Page Start: 176
• Page End: 183
• Publication Date: 2014-06
• Subjects: Children with disabilities -- Rehabilitation -- Periodicals; Developmentally disabled children -- Rehabilitation -- Periodicals; 615.542
• DOI: 10.3109/17518423.2012.747569
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1751-8423

Abstract

<abstract> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p> <italic>Objective:</italic> To examine the correlation of function, quality of life (QOL), and parental impact on developmental delayed children.</p> <p> <italic>Methods:</italic> Sixty parents of children with developmental delays (<italic>M</italic>:<italic>F</italic> = 36:24, mean age 4 years and 2 months) and 56 parents of age–sex matched typical development children were included. Pediatric Outcomes Data Collection Instrument and Child Health Questionnaire for children, World Health Organization-QOL, Impact on Family Scale, and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale for parents were assessed.</p> <p> <italic>Results:</italic> Functional performance was correlated with physical component of QOL in children (correlation coefficients: 0.7–0.9; <italic>p</italic> &lt; 0.01), age of children (0.3–0.4; <italic>p</italic> &lt; 0.05) and parents (0.3; <italic>p</italic> &lt; 0.05), maternal employment (0.3–0.4; <italic>p</italic> &lt; 0.05), parental QOL (0.3–0.4; <italic>p</italic> &lt; 0.01), family impact (−0.3 to −0.5; <italic>p</italic> &lt; 0.01), and parental emotion (−0.3 to −0.4; <italic>p</italic> &lt; 0.05).</p> <p> <italic>Conclusions:</italic> Children who exhibited higher levels of function had higher QOL, as did their parents, and less parental impact.</p> </abstract>