Sensory Processing Difficulties, Behavioral Problems, and Parental Stress in a Clinical Population of Young Children
Sensory Processing Difficulties, Behavioral Problems, and Parental Stress in a Clinical Population of Young Children
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DOI：
10.1007/s10826-012-9650-9
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发表时间：
2013-10-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Chinitz, Susan
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作者：
Gourley, Lauren;Wind, Carina;Chinitz, Susan
本研究探讨了感觉加工困难，父母的压力，并在临床样本的幼儿发展和行为困难的行为问题之间的关系。我们假设，感觉处理困难的发生率很高，感觉处理困难和行为问题之间的共病率很高，儿童的感觉处理困难和父母的压力高度相关。59名2 - 5岁儿童的父母在一个低收入的城市社区门诊就诊，他们完成了儿童行为检查表、父母压力量表-简表和简短的感觉量表。该临床人群中的儿童表现出感觉处理困难的高患病率（55.9%），显著高于先前报道的比率。感觉处理缺陷与行为困难和父母压力水平相关，这表明随着感觉处理困难的增加，行为困难和父母压力也会增加。感觉加工缺陷儿童的父母有显着较高的父母压力水平比没有感觉缺陷的儿童的父母。在感觉处理困难和行为问题并存的儿童中，育儿压力水平也在临床上升高。这些研究结果表明，如果心理健康临床医生接受培训，以确定和解决感官问题，治疗结果可能会改善，父母的压力可能会减少。这可能会导致更多的儿童接受感官处理困难的筛查和治疗，并最终降低父母压力的发生率。
This study examined the relationship between sensory processing difficulties, parental stress, and behavioral problems in a clinical sample of young children with developmental and behavioral difficulties. We hypothesized that a high rate of sensory processing difficulties would be found, that there would be a high rate of comorbidity between sensory processing difficulties and behavioral problems, and that children's sensory processing difficulties and parental stress would be highly correlated. Parents of 59 children ages two to five who attended an out-patient clinic in a low income, urban community completed the Child Behavior Checklist, Parental Stress Inventory-Short Form and the Short Sensory Profile. Children in this clinical population showed a high prevalence (55.9 %) of sensory processing difficulties, a significantly higher rate than previously reported. Sensory processing deficits were correlated with behavioral difficulties and parental stress levels-suggesting that as sensory processing difficulties increase, so do behavioral difficulties and parental stress. Parents of children with sensory processing deficits had significantly higher levels of parental stress than parents of children without sensory deficits. Parenting stress levels were also clinically elevated for the cohort of children in which sensory processing difficulties and behavioral concerns co-existed. These findings suggest that treatment outcomes might improve and parental stress could be reduced if mental health clinicians were trained to identify and address sensory problems. This could result in more children being screened and treated for sensory processing difficulties and an eventual reduction in the rates of parental stress.