Depression risks in mothers of children with developmental disabilities: A cross-cultural comparison of Brazil, Colombia, Malaysia and Thailand

Hirokazu Osada, Annibal Coelho de Amorim, Andrea Velosa, Wong Poh Wan, Panpimol Lotrakul and Hitoshi Hara

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2013, vol. 59, issue 4, 398-400

Abstract: Background: Compared with US or European countries, there are fewer mental health services for mothers of children with developmental disabilities in Latin American and/or Southeast Asian countries. Aims: To explore the risk of depression in mothers of children with developmental disabilities in countries with a lack of mental health professionals, we conducted cross-cultural comparisons for four countries: Brazil, Colombia, Malaysia and Thailand. Methods: Using the CES-D, we compared the participants’ depressive symptoms, by which we also estimated the probability of morbid depression. Results: In every country, participants tended to show depressive symptoms. In the CES-D total scores and the numbers of mothers who were observed to have a high level of depressive symptoms, there were significant differences among countries ( F = 4.36, p = .006; χ 2 = 10.3, p = .015). Conclusions: Considering cultural models, we could apply evidence-based intervention to depressive mothers of children, and conduct intervention and treatment for those mothers and evaluate ways of providing better mental health services to these individuals.

Keywords: CES-D; cross-cultural comparison; depression; mental health; mothers of children with developmental disabilities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1177/0020764012438477

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