Influence of parental care burden on quality of life of school-age children with asthma: mediating role of coping style

Objective To explore the mediating role of coping methods between the parental care burden and quality of survival in school-aged asthma children.Methods Using the method of convenient sampling, the parents of school-age asthmatic children in pediatric clinics of three first-class hospitals in Sichuan Province from January 2021 to July 2021 were selected as the research objects. The general information questionnaire, the parents' coping style scale, the caregiver's burden questionnaire, and the short form of the quality of life measurement scale were used to investigate. Structural equation modeling was used to examine the mediating relationship among coping style, caregiver burden, and quality of life.Results A total of 380 questionnaires were collected in this study, of which 366 were valid questionnaires, with an effective rate of 96.3%. The average age of parents was (34.37±5.08) years old, and the average age of children was (7.71±1.70) years old. The average total scores of the caregiver burden scale, coping style scale, and quality of life measurement scale of parents of school-age asthmatic children were (29.56±17.42) points, (163.58±26.47) points, and (88.81±13.29) points; the caregiver burden of parents of school-age asthmatic children There is a pairwise correlation with coping style and quality of life (P < 0.05). Coping style (seeking social support, maintaining self-esteem and psychological stability) plays a partial mediating role in the relationship between caregiver burden and quality of life, with a mediating effect value of 15.1%.Conclusion School-age asthma children parents quality of survival is not optimistic, caregivers burden overall low burden, overall response in the medium level, coping (seek social support, maintain self-esteem and psychological stability) in school-age asthma parents intermediary burden and quality of survival, suggested that based on this path intervention children parents coping and caregivers burden, to improve the quality of survival.