Factors Affecting Mental Health of Mothers of Patients with Attention-Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD)

Abstract

Objective :

To identify factors that affecting mental health of mothers of patients attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD).

Method :

Samples consisted of 100 mothers of patients with ADHD who received treatment from psychiatric out-patient department at Ramathibodi Hospital from February to August 2015. The instruments comprised the designed questionnaire for collecting demographic data of mothers and her children, the Thai Mental Health Indicators (TMHI 66), and Swanson, Nolan, and Pelham IV Scale (SNAP-IV) for evaluating patient behavior. Data analysis was computed by univariate analysis and binary logistic regression analysis to determine factors that affecting mental health of mothers.

Result :

43.3 percent of mothers of patients with ADHD had a level of mental health as general population’s (fair), 56.7 percent of mothers had a level of mental health lower than the general population’s (poor) and no mother had a level of mental health above the general population’s (good). Factors affecting the lower level of maternal mental health was only mother with underlying disease (p = 0.004). Factors from patient were not affected all types of mothers’ mental health.

Conclusion :

Factors affecting fair and poor mental health mothers of patients with ADHD were mothers with underlying disease while no factors from patients was affected all types of mother’s mental health.