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Homeless parents' perceptions of parenting stress
1University of South Florida, College of Public Health, Tampa, USA.
Purpose:
To describe homeless parents' perceptions of parenting stress as potential indicators of needs for support in parenting roles.
Sample:
Forty-seven homeless parents (30 mothers, 17 fathers).
Methods:
Subjects completed the Parenting Stress Index to measure perceived parenting stress in the areas of child domain, parent domain, and life stress.
Findings:
Homeless mothers and homeless fathers both identified the child domain as the most frequent source of stress. T tests showed a significant difference between groups only in the parent domain subscale of competence.
Conclusions:
Findings from this study indicate the need to include parenting stress questions in an initial nursing or health assessment.