Intervention for treating depression in parents of children with intellectual disability of Down syndrome: A sample of Nigerian Parents.
- Title
- Intervention for treating depression in parents of children with intellectual disability of Down syndrome: A sample of Nigerian Parents.
- Author(s)
- Edeh, M.O., & Okeke, C.I.O. See all items with this value
- Date
- 2022 See all items with this value
- Description
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A good number of parents of children with Down syndrome are prone to depressive disorders. The depressive feelings are attributed to negative perceptions of the situation, self, and the future. Given this, we explored the impact of the family health model of rational-emotive behavior therapy on depressive symptoms in parents of children with intellectual disability of Down syndrome in the COVID-19 pandemic era. This is a randomized pretest–posttest control group design that recruited 88 parents of children with intellectual disability of Down syndrome. We measured the depressive symptoms in parents at Time 1, Time 2, and Time 3 using the Beck depressive inventory and Hamilton depression rating scale. We adopted a family health model rational emotive behaviour therapy intervention in treating the depressive symptoms afecting the parents. The analysis of covariate results showed that at initial assessment there was no signifcant diference between the treatment group and comparison group at baseline evaluation of depressive symptoms in participants. At the posttest, it had a signifcant efect on the intervention on participants’
depressive symptoms. Likewise, a follow-up result still shows that intervention had a signifcant efect on participants’ depressive symptoms of participants. In conclusion, this study suggests that treatment variable accounted for the efect in decreasing depressive symptoms scores of participants. - Publisher
- Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy See all items with this value
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- Keywords
- REBT · Family health model of REBT · Depression · Parents · Parents of down syndrome children · Outcome research See all items with this value
- pages
- 1-25
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- Journal Articles
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