title: Parental stress in mothers of children and adolescents with cerebral palsy.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to evaluate parental stress of mothers of children and adolescents with cerebral palsy; to verify whether parental stress undergoes variations according to the level of motor compromise, the child's phase of life, and sociodemographic variables.
  
  
  METHODS
  a cross-sectional, descriptive study, with 223 mothers of children and adolescents with cerebral palsy.
  
  
  RESULTS
  45.3% of the mothers presented high levels of stress; there were differences in stress between mothers of children with mild and severe motor impairment; mothers of older children were more stressed than mothers of younger children and of adolescents; paid work and leisure activities reduced the stress.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  mothers of children and adolescents with cerebral palsy, whose children present mild to severe motor impairment are vulnerable to parental stress. Paid work and leisure activities were the factors that contributed most to reducing the stress.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, GO, Brasil.
authors.forename: Maysa Ferreira Martins
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Ribeiro
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, GO, Brazil.
authors.forename: Ana Luiza Lima
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Sousa
authors.affiliation: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, Goiânia, GO, Brazil.
authors.forename: Luc
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Vandenberghe
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, GO, Brazil.
authors.forename: Celmo Celeno
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Porto
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002547:Cerebral Palsy; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008875:Middle Aged; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology*; D055815:Young Adult