Differences in family management patterns and family resilience in children with brain tumors / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To explore the impact of different family management patterns on the family resilience of children with brain tumors.Methods:A total of 210 parents of children with postoperative brain tumors in 2 tertiary Grade A pediatric hospitals were investigated by the general information questionnaire, family management measure (FaMM) and family resilience rating scale.SPSS 24.0 was used for cluster analysis.Results:(1) Among the scores of FaMM, child identity, condition management ability and parental mutuality were significantly positively correlated with family resilience ( r=0.312, r=0.470, r=0.391, all P<0.05), while view of condition impact, condition management difficulty and condition management effort were negatively correlated with family resilience ( r=-0.346, r=-0.177, r=-0.348, all P<0.05). (2) Family management patterns could be divided into four categories: burden managing (22.9%), effective managing (24.8%), poor managing (28.6%) and tacit managing (23.8%). (3) Family resilience scores of the four patterns were (197.21±20.08), (205.92±14.25), (181.47±18.13) and (198.06±17.08), and their differences were statistically significant ( F=19.498, P<0.01). Conclusion:The family resilience level of children with brain tumor is associated with different family management patterns.Therefore, effective strategies according to different family characteristics should be developed to improve family resilience level.