title: Some sources of stress found in mothers of spina bifida children.
abstract: The scores on a malaise inventory for 51 mothers of spina bifida children born between 1956 and 1962 in South Wales revealed significantly higher scores when the child was incontinent, had a severe locomotor disability, had an IQ less than 80, and was attending a special school rather than a normal school. No difference in scores was found between the sexes or for size of family, and only a slight difference occurred between the malaise scores of mothers of mildly and moderately handicapped children.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D004677:Encephalocele; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008134:Long-Term Care; D008297:Male; D008588:Meningocele; D008591:Meningomyelocele; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D012574:Schools; D016135:Spinal Dysraphism; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014555:Urination Disorders