Care burden, coping styles and involvement in care in mothers of autistic children in pandemic of COVID-19.
Fateme MohammadiNiloofar SaniKhodayar OshvandiSeyedeh Zahra MasoumiSalman KhazaeiSaeid BashirianEnsiyeh JenabiMajid BaratiMohammad RezaeiSeyed Reza BorzouPublished in: Nursing open (2022)
Findings of the study found that burden of care has a strong and direct correlation with involvement in care (p < .001, r = .78) and strongly and indirectly correlated with coping styles (p < .001, r = -.82). Variables of coping styles, involvement in care, mothers' occupation and number of children, age and functional level of autism can predict 81.27% of the variance in care burden in these mothers.