Family empowerment and associated factors in Japanese families raising a child with severe motor and intellectual disabilities

Objectives: Family caregivers raising children with severe motor and intellectual disabilities (SMID) experience the enormous burden of care. The concept of family empowerment is one of the important assessment indexes of family nursing from the perspective of providing comprehensive support for the...

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Main Authors: Rie Wakimizu, Hiroshi Fujioka, Kaori Nishigaki, Akemi Matsuzawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-10-01
Series:International Journal of Nursing Sciences
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352013218302400