Introduction Although caring for a child with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD)
can have positive outcomes, parents may be at a greater risk of depression and anxiety, due …

Background Social support (SS) has been identified as an essential buffer to stressful life
events. Consequently, there has been a surge in the evaluation of SS as a wellbeing …

Objective. Most children enjoy healthy childhoods with little need for specialized health care
services. However, some children experience difficulties in early childhood and require …

Objectives Mothers of school age and older children with developmental disabilities
experience poorer health than mothers of typically developing children. This review …

Stress among parents and other primary caregivers of children with developmental
disabilities is pervasive and linked to lower quality of life, unhealthy family functioning, and …

Background There are an estimated 5.9 million children with severe disabilities in the USA,
and most of them are cared for at home by their parents and families. Indirect evidence …

Background Little is known about the Quality of Life (QOL) in parents of children with
developmental diseases as compared to other severe neurological or psychiatric disorders …

OBJECTIVES. Studies suggest that having a child with autism has a negative impact on
maternal psychological functioning, but no large-scale, population-based studies are …

Parents caring for children with rare diseases fear the long-term progression of the child's
disease. The current study aims to systematically investigate the quality of life (QoL) in …

Background Little is known about the quality of life of parents and families of preterm infants
after discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Our aims were (1) to describe …