What is it about?
Thirty‐nine participants took part in our CBT groups and attended follow‐up meetings. A questionnaire comprising four instruments, the Parenting Stress Index (PS) – Parent Domain, General Health Questionnaire‐12 (GHQ‐12), Abbreviated Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction Questionnaire (Q‐LES‐Q‐18) and Dysfunctional Attitude Scale (DAS), was administered to the participants at the pre‐ and post‐test stage and at the 6‐month follow‐up.
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Why is it important?
Caring for a child with intellectual disability can be stressful. No data on the longer‐term effects of cognitive–behavioural treatment (CBT) on parents from a Chinese‐speaking background who have children with intellectual disabilities are available in the literature. This study attempted to fill this research gap by examining the maintenance effect of CBT among the Chinese parents of such children in Melbourne, Australia.
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This study provides preliminary evidence of the 6‐month maintenance effect of CBT groups for the Melbourne‐resident Chinese parents of children with intellectual disabilities.
Sylvia Kwok
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This page is a summary of: The maintenance effect of cognitive-behavioural treatment groups for the Chinese parents of children with intellectual disabilities in Melbourne, Australia: a 6-month follow-up study, Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, June 2011, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2788.2011.01431.x.
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