Caregiver burden and inflammation in parents of children with special healthcare needs

Children with special healthcare needs (CSHCN) are a vulnerable population that require specialized services and are often cared for by parents. These parents experience psychological, physiological, and potential inflammatory dysfunction related to amplified caregiving burden which may increase wit...

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Published in:Discover psychology 2023-10, Vol.3 (1), p.29-13, Article 29
Main Authors: Bamber, Mandy D., Solatikia, Farnaz, Gaillard, Philippe, Spratling, Regena
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Autism
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Behavioral Sciences
Biomarkers
Caregiver burden
Caregivers
Caregiving
Children & youth
Children with medical complexity
Children with special healthcare needs
Chronic illnesses
Cystic fibrosis
Cytokines
Economics
Educational Psychology
Game Theory
Guardians
Inflammation
Mental depression
Mental health
Parental caregivers
Parents & parenting
Pediatrics
Psycholinguistics
Psychology
Social and Behav. Sciences
Social networks
Stress
Tumor necrosis factor-TNF
Well being
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Summary:Children with special healthcare needs (CSHCN) are a vulnerable population that require specialized services and are often cared for by parents. These parents experience psychological, physiological, and potential inflammatory dysfunction related to amplified caregiving burden which may increase with the complexity of the child’s condition. Due to the potential for inflammatory dysregulation, we aimed to compare caregiver burden and inflammation of parents with CSHCN based on the severity of the child’s condition to parents of typically developing children. A cross-sectional design that included parents of typically developing children (n = 60), non-complex chronic disease (n = 28; one chronic condition that does not progress), and complex chronic disease (n = 32) was used. Parents completed the Caregiver Burden Inventory and blood serum was collected to measure inflammation. Multivariate analyses of variance with post-hoc testing was used to determine between group differences. Parents of children with complex disease experienced greater caregiver burden than parents of typically developing children ( p  
ISSN:2731-4537
2731-4537
DOI:10.1007/s44202-023-00089-z