Stress and resilience in parents of children with cerebral palsy

This study aims to evaluate parenting stress and resilience, to cross-reference quantitative and qualitative ISD variables with the Connor and Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) and total stress and resilience factors, and to investigate if there is a predictive model for high stress and high resilience. A total of 92 parents of children with cerebral palsy participated in this study. The instruments used were the Socio-demographic Inventory (ISD), the Parenting Stress Index (PSI/SF) and the CD-RISC. The analyses were performed in SPSS version 20.0. The following ISD items ─ time of parents' union, child's age, parents’ age, school adjustment, health problems, government benefit, child attending school, and city of residence ─ interacted with the CD-RISC factors of courage/determination, adaptability, social support and control, tolerance for adversity, self-efficacy, social support and confidence, and total resilience, explaining resilience in the different stress level groups. Finally, the present study showed that there was no predictive model of high stress, but it was found that older parents are more likely to showhigh resilience, as is the case with parents of younger children.