Subjective and family factors determining parental attitudes in parents of children with primary immunodeficiency treated with immunoglobulin substitute

Abstract

This paper presents the results of aquestionnaire about parental attitudes carried out on 47 parents of children with primary immunodeficiency hospitalized at the University Children’s Hospital in Kraków-Prokocim, Poland, and treated with intravenous immunoglobulin substitute. The following questionnaires were used in the study: the Parental Attitudes Scaleby Plopa, NEO-Five Factor InventorybyCosta and McCrae, FACES-IV SOR (adapted into Polish by Margasiński), and Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations. The quantitative research was supplemented by qualitative methods such as psychological inquiries. The study revealed differences with normalized groups across all techniques. Empirical analysis was aimed at testing which of the variables adopted in the study explain parental attitudes in parents of children with primary immunodeficiency. In order to do this, aprogressive stepwise regression analysis was conducted. As aresult, several interesting multiple regression models were isolated for parental attitudes, which Plopa describes in his typology as dependent variables. The variables specified in the FACES-IV SOR turned out to be statistically significant predictors for autonomy (balanced flexibility: β = 0.406; p = 0.007) and inconsistency (rigidity: β= 0.573; p = 0.005)