title: Influence of support by elderly persons on Japanese mothers' child care-related stress.
abstract: This study examined the influence of child-care support by elderly persons on mothers' child care-related stress in Japan. A cross-sectional study was conducted from February to April 2007 by using an anonymous questionnaire. This study focused on the "child-care salon" (hereafter referred to as "salon") as a type of parenting support activity by elderly persons in the community. For the analysis, 119 salon participants and a control group of 107 mothers who had not participated in a salon were recruited. As a result of a multiple regression analysis, participation or non-participation in the salon had no influence on the 'threat of loss of personal identity' stress, which was similar to a sense of social isolation because of child care. However, as a result of investigating the influence of the participation frequency on stress score for participants alone, mothers with less participation had a higher stress score than mothers with greater participation. That suggested the importance of intervention for a decrease of social isolation in mothers, especially in the initial stage of salon participation.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Nursing, Senri Kinran University, Japan. e-kusano@cs.kinran.ac.jp
authors.forename: Emiko
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kusano
authors.forename: Miho
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ono
authors.forename: Kazuo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hayakawa
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002654:Child Care / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003625:Data Collection; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D011594:Psychometrics; D012934:Social Isolation; D012944:Social Support; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult