Psychological Distress of Parents of infants With Down Syndrome
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Analysis of pooled data indicated significantly greater depression for the study parents, suggesting that Parenting an infant with Down syndrome may cause less distress than previously thought.
Abstract
The distress level of parents who had infants with Down syndrome (study parents) was compared to that of control parents of infants without disability (infants were all less than 2 years of age). Data were collected in two independent surveys. We matched subjects case-by-case on socioeconomic status. Analysis of pooled data indicated significantly greater depression for the study parents. However, effect sizes were small, and the prevalence of clinical depression was 5.56% (n = 108) among matched study parents and 4.26% (n = 188) among unmatched study parents. Parenting an infant with Down syndrome may cause less distress than previously thought.