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Mental health and well-being of fathers of children with intellectual disabilities: systematic review and meta-analysis
BACKGROUND: Caring for a child with intellectual disabilities can be a very rewarding but demanding experience. Research in this area has primarily focused on mothers, with relatively little attention given to the mental health of fathers. AIMS: The purpose of this review was to summarise the eviden...
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2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6854361/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31694727 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2019.75 |
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author | Dunn, Kirsty Kinnear, Deborah Jahoda, Andrew McConnachie, Alex |
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description | BACKGROUND: Caring for a child with intellectual disabilities can be a very rewarding but demanding experience. Research in this area has primarily focused on mothers, with relatively little attention given to the mental health of fathers. AIMS: The purpose of this review was to summarise the evidence related to the mental health of fathers compared with mothers, and with fathers in the general population. METHOD: A meta-analysis was undertaken of all studies published by 1 July 2018 in Medline, PsycINFO, CINAHL and EMBASE, using terms on intellectual disabilities, mental health and father carers. Papers were selected based on pre-defined inclusion and exclusion criteria. RESULTS: Of 5544 results, 20 studies met the inclusion criteria and 12 had appropriate data for meta-analysis. For comparisons of fathers with mothers, mothers were significantly more likely to have poor general mental health and well-being (standardised mean difference (SMD) −0.38, 95% CI −0.56 to −0.20), as well as higher levels of depression (SMD, −0.46; 95% CI −0.68 to −0.24), stress (SMD, −0.32; 95% CI −0.46 to −0.19) and anxiety (SMD, −0.30; 95% CI −0.50 to −0.10). CONCLUSIONS: There is a significant difference between the mental health of father and mother carers, with fathers less likely to exhibit poor mental health. However, this is based on a small number of studies. More data is needed to determine whether the general mental health and anxiety of father carers of a child with intellectual disabilities differs from fathers in the general population. |
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spelling | pubmed-68543612019-11-22 Mental health and well-being of fathers of children with intellectual disabilities: systematic review and meta-analysis Dunn, Kirsty Kinnear, Deborah Jahoda, Andrew McConnachie, Alex BJPsych Open Review BACKGROUND: Caring for a child with intellectual disabilities can be a very rewarding but demanding experience. Research in this area has primarily focused on mothers, with relatively little attention given to the mental health of fathers. AIMS: The purpose of this review was to summarise the evidence related to the mental health of fathers compared with mothers, and with fathers in the general population. METHOD: A meta-analysis was undertaken of all studies published by 1 July 2018 in Medline, PsycINFO, CINAHL and EMBASE, using terms on intellectual disabilities, mental health and father carers. Papers were selected based on pre-defined inclusion and exclusion criteria. RESULTS: Of 5544 results, 20 studies met the inclusion criteria and 12 had appropriate data for meta-analysis. For comparisons of fathers with mothers, mothers were significantly more likely to have poor general mental health and well-being (standardised mean difference (SMD) −0.38, 95% CI −0.56 to −0.20), as well as higher levels of depression (SMD, −0.46; 95% CI −0.68 to −0.24), stress (SMD, −0.32; 95% CI −0.46 to −0.19) and anxiety (SMD, −0.30; 95% CI −0.50 to −0.10). CONCLUSIONS: There is a significant difference between the mental health of father and mother carers, with fathers less likely to exhibit poor mental health. However, this is based on a small number of studies. More data is needed to determine whether the general mental health and anxiety of father carers of a child with intellectual disabilities differs from fathers in the general population. Cambridge University Press 2019-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6854361/ /pubmed/31694727 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2019.75 Text en © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2019 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Dunn, Kirsty Kinnear, Deborah Jahoda, Andrew McConnachie, Alex Mental health and well-being of fathers of children with intellectual disabilities: systematic review and meta-analysis |
title | Mental health and well-being of fathers of children with intellectual disabilities: systematic review and meta-analysis |
title_full | Mental health and well-being of fathers of children with intellectual disabilities: systematic review and meta-analysis |
title_fullStr | Mental health and well-being of fathers of children with intellectual disabilities: systematic review and meta-analysis |
title_full_unstemmed | Mental health and well-being of fathers of children with intellectual disabilities: systematic review and meta-analysis |
title_short | Mental health and well-being of fathers of children with intellectual disabilities: systematic review and meta-analysis |
title_sort | mental health and well-being of fathers of children with intellectual disabilities: systematic review and meta-analysis |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6854361/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31694727 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2019.75 |
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