Affiliation:
1. Project Director, ICSSR-IMPRESS Research Project Ministry of Human Resource Development,Delhi).ICSSR-IMPRESS and Associate Professor, College of Nursing ,Mother Theresa Post Graduate and Research Institute of Health Sciences, Puducherry.
Abstract
Parenting is a hugely stressful job, and attering a mother of a child with a disability is one of the big
stressful life events that can occur. The aim of this systematic review was to summarize coping strategies
used by mothers of special children, identify which tools are most frequently used to measure coping strategies in mothers of
special children and report on outcomes of useful coping strategies. According to PRISMA guidelines, the articles indexed in
PubMed, Web of science, Psyc INFO, and CINAHL database using a combination of expressions including “Coping” AND
“Special children” OR “Coping enhancement AND ‘‘Mother”, were searched and analysed. The researcher found that the
mothers of special children used more functional coping styles. The most widely used strategy by mothers of special children
appears to be social support-seeking. This review underlines that Coping measurement should be adapted to recognize
effective strategies which decrease side effects of the reactions to stressful life occurrence.
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