The relationship between the anxiety and depression of parents of children with congenital heart disease after surgery and family cohesion and adaptation / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the relationship between family cohesion and adaptation and the anxiety and depression level of parents of children with congenital heart disease after surgery.Methods 302 parents of children with congenital heart disease and 330 parents in child health care clinic were conveniently selected and investigated with Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS).And Family Cohesion and Adaptation Questionnaire (FACES Ⅱ-CV) was applied to investigate the former.Results The mean score of the anxiety and depression level of parents of children with congenital heart disease was higher than that of the parents in child health care clinic.The difference was significant.The score of anxiety and depression of parents of children with congenital heart disease was significantly correlated with dissatisfaction of family coherence and adaptation; while negatively correlated with real family cohesion and adaptation.Multiple linear regression showed that real family adaptation,dissatisfaction of family adaptation were influential important factors of parents' anxiety.Dissatisfaction of family adaptation was also the influential important factors of the parents' depression.Conclusions The anxiety and depression of parents was above the average level,we must pay more attention to improve it,make full use of the function of families,and to improve their anxiety and depression condition.