The Impact of Mothers' Sense of Empowerment oh the Metabolic Control of Their Children With Juvenile Diabetes

Abstract

The findings support the importance of developing and enhancing the parents' sense of empowerment toward better adherence and metabolic control of their children's IDDM.

Differences in empowerment and quality of life among parents of children with food allergy

“…This concern could be particularly salient given that most fatal reactions occur outside the home. 4,21 Given the extant literature in other pediatric populations identifying associations between parent-perceived competence or self-efficacy and decreased parental distress, 16,22 the present empowerment and QOL findings combine to underline a fundamental difference between the nature of food allergy and other chronic conditionsdthe constant risk, real or perceived, of potentially fatal anaphylaxis occurring outside the sphere of parental influence.…”

“…Previous work has found that parents' perceived competence with regard to their ability to manage their child's chronic condition promotes adaptive family functioning, increases medication adherence, and decreases parental distress. 6,16,40 The present sample, with a large number of married couples, which presumably would allow for greater cohesion for the couple in caring for the child, could represent a best-case scenario in which mothers and fathers could ideally know the risks and responsibilities of allergy reactions in their offspring, thereby shouldering the burden equally between them. Nevertheless, significant differences were found between maternal and paternal self-reported empowerment and confidence in their ability to implement that knowledge in the effective management of their child's food allergy.…”

“…12,13 Recent work has found family-level interventions rooted in theories of psychological empowerment to be effective in improving pediatric asthma management 14,15 and improving metabolic function in children with diabetes. 16 As such, targeted interventions in psychological empowerment might hold promise for improving FAQOL in families living with food allergy. In the present study, the authors hypothesized that parental FAQOL would be positively associated with empowerment in mothers and fathers of children with food allergy.…”

Financial Literacy and Economic Empowerment of Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: Examining the Differences Between Public Assistance Recipients and Nonrecipients

“…The FES has been adapted and used in several studies (Florian & Elad, 1998;Walsh & Lord, 2004), including research with women who were battered (Itzhaky & Porat, 2005). The original scale has demonstrated reliability and validity with a kappa coefficient of .77 and alpha coefficients ranging from .87 to .88 for each of the subscales (Koren et al, 1992).…”

Parental use of EpiPen for children with food allergies

“…10 Appropriate use of EpiPen constitutes proper treatment of food-induced anaphylaxis, although the outcome is more difficult to measure than glycosylated hemoglobin for patients with IDDM. The referenced Israeli study 10 used, among other validated questionnaires, the Family Empowerment Scale (FES), 11 an instrument originally designed for families of children with emotional disabilities.…”