TY - JOUR
T1 - Healthy Mothers Healthy Families Workshop Intervention
T2 - A Preliminary Investigation of Healthy Lifestyle Changes for Mothers of a Child with a Disability
AU - Bourke-Taylor, Helen M.
AU - Jane, Fiona
AU - Peat, Jennifer
PY - 2019/3
Y1 - 2019/3
N2 - Substantial evidence identifies mothers of children with a disability as having a higher risk for compromised health outcomes and lifestyle restrictions secondary to caring responsibilities. Healthy Mothers Healthy Families (HMHF) is an evidence informed health and empowerment group-based workshop program. Methods: HMHF features health education and lifestyle redesign content. Mixed methods evaluated the program. This paper presents a pretest-postest time series design to evaluate outcomes over 8 months. Results: Mothers reported significant change across 4 time points including participation in healthy activity (p = 0.017), depression, anxiety, stress symptoms (p = 0.017, 0.016, 0.037 respectively) and empowerment (p = 0.009). Conclusion: Coupled with qualitative findings, these results suggest that HMHF is effective at improving health and wellbeing outcomes for mothers of children with a disability.
AB - Substantial evidence identifies mothers of children with a disability as having a higher risk for compromised health outcomes and lifestyle restrictions secondary to caring responsibilities. Healthy Mothers Healthy Families (HMHF) is an evidence informed health and empowerment group-based workshop program. Methods: HMHF features health education and lifestyle redesign content. Mixed methods evaluated the program. This paper presents a pretest-postest time series design to evaluate outcomes over 8 months. Results: Mothers reported significant change across 4 time points including participation in healthy activity (p = 0.017), depression, anxiety, stress symptoms (p = 0.017, 0.016, 0.037 respectively) and empowerment (p = 0.009). Conclusion: Coupled with qualitative findings, these results suggest that HMHF is effective at improving health and wellbeing outcomes for mothers of children with a disability.
KW - Carers
KW - Children with disability
KW - Health promotion
KW - Mental health
KW - Mothers
KW - Women’s health
KW - occupational therapy
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U2 - 10.1007/s10803-018-3789-1
DO - 10.1007/s10803-018-3789-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85055876097
VL - 49
SP - 935
EP - 949
JO - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
JF - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
SN - 0162-3257
IS - 3
ER -