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The Relationship Between Coping Strategies and Sociodemographic Characteristics, Shame and Anxiety in Families of Children or Adolescences with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: A Cross Sectional Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

M. Gouva ,
K. Katsanos ,
A. Tsoutsi ,
E. Dragioti  and
E. Kotrotsiou
M. Gouva
Affiliation:
Technological Educational Institute of Epirus, Research Laboratory Psychology of Patients Families and Health Professionals, Ioannina, Greece
K. Katsanos
Affiliation:
University of Ioannina, Medicine, Ioannina, Greece
A. Tsoutsi
Affiliation:
Technological Educational Institute of Epirus, Research Laboratory Psychology of Patients Families and Health Professionals, Ioannina, Greece
E. Dragioti
Affiliation:
Linköping University, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Pain and Rehabilitation Center, Anesthetics, Operations and Specialty Surgery Center, Linköping, Sweden
E. Kotrotsiou
Affiliation:
Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly, Research Laboratory of Care, Larisa, Greece

Abstract

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Introduction

Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease is characterized from a complicated therapeutic management, with bodily and psychological impact to the family.

Objectives

This study examined the coping strategies among families with a child or adolescent with IBD.

Aim

The aim was to investigate possible sex differences with respect to coping strategies of the parents would correlated to overall coping strategies.

Method

The participants were biological parents of patients diagnosed with IBD. The total sample included 61 parents with a mean age 46.2 (SD = 7.4). The parents completed:

– the Family Crisis Oriented Personal Scales;

– the Other As Shamer Scale;

– the Experiences of Shame Scale (ESS);

– questionnaire concerning socio-demographic information.

Results

Mother reported higher levels of social support, accept help, passive appraisal, and overall strategies compared to fathers. The strongest difference was found in accept help (P < 0.001). The feelings of shame of the mothers and fathers of the IBD families were very similar, without statistically significant differences between the groups. The results of the MLR, after controlling for adolescents age, sex and illness duration, revealed that the older age, being a mother, being married and being employment had direct positive associations with the overall coping strategies, while ESS had direct negative associations with the overall coping strategies. The model with all seven predictors explained 68% of the total variance (R2 = 0.68, F = 6.409, P < 0.001).

Conclusions

Our findings provide more detailed information on the coping strategies of Greek families with a child or adolescence with IBD.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-poster walk: Consultation liaison psychiatry and psychosomatics–Part 1
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S235
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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