title: The Role of Self-Care for Parents in Recovery From Substance Use Disorders: An Integrative Review of Parental Self-Care.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Lack of stress modifiers, such as self-care behaviors (SCBs), can increase vulnerability to drug use for parents in recovery from substance use disorders (SUDs).
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this integrative review was to determine how the existing literature describes, conceptualizes, and measures SCB for parents in the general population for its application to parents with a history of SUD.
  
  
  METHODS
  Framed by Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory of Substance Abuse, four qualitative and five quantitative studies identify SCB, although only one study describes SCB of parents in recovery.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Few studies addressed parental SCB, and most of those studies focused on behaviors for new mothers with or without SUDs during the early child years.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Exploring the role of SCB in relation to parental well-being for the general population is a needed area for further research, even more so for parents who are recovering from SUDs.
authors: Phyllis Raynor, PhD, PMHNP-BC, APRN, and Charlene Pope, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, College of Nursing, Medical University of South Carolina, Irmo.
authors: Phyllis
authors: P
authors: Raynor
authors: Charlene
authors: C
authors: Pope
mesh_terms: D016241:Child of Impaired Parents; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D012648:Self Care; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000451:nursing / Q000534:rehabilitation*