A research of social support, empowerment and quality of life of parents with developmental delay children who have accepted early intervention services in Taipei City and New Taipei City

• Main Authors: Wang, Szu-Chung, 王思淳
• Other Authors: Shen, Ching-Ying
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/mea4a6

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 社會工作學研究所 === 100 === The purpose of this research is to study the current condition of social support, empowerment, and quality of life of parents with developmental delay children who have accepted early intervention services, and to investigate the impacts of social support and empowerment on quality of life. This research adopts questionnaire survey method, and objects of study are parents with developmental delay children who have accepted early intervention services in Taipei City and New Taipei City. The sample is first stratified, and then conducted convenience sampling from Social Welfare Organizations, Health Organizations, and Educational Organizations. The total of 235 valid questionnaires is recycled for this study, and Social Supportive Scale, Family Empowerment Scale, and WHOQOL-BREF are applied for analysis. After analysing data with SPSS, the findings are as follows: 1.As for early intervention services, therapists (42.6%) play the most profound role in impression and contacting with parents, followed by special education teachers (29.7%) and social workers (11.9%). Nearly 45% of parents contacts early intervention service staff every week. 2.As for the part of parents’ perception toward social support, parents feel that social support provided by early intervention service staff is moderately low. Among the three dimensions of social support, the most frequently received support in early intervention services is information support, followed by emotional support and instrumental support accordingly. 3.As for the part of parents’ empowerment, the degree of overall empowerment of parents is moderately high. Among those three levels of empowerment, parents scored the highest is in service system, followed by family, and community/policy. 4.As for the part of parents’ quality of life, the overall quality of life and general health are moderately low. Parents scored the highest in the physical health domain, followed by the social relationships domain, then the environment domain, and psychological domain. 5.(1)The finding of correlation analysis shows that there is a significant positive correlation between overall social support and overall empowerment. However, instrumental support is not significantly associated with family empowerment. (2)Informational support shows a significant positive correlation with overall quality of life and four other domains. But instrumental support shows a significant negative correlation with psychological domain, social relationship domain, environment domain, and overall quality of life. Overall social support is not significantly associated with overall quality of life and four other domains. Emotional support is not significantly associated with overall quality of life and four other domains. (3)Overall empowerment, family empowerment, and service system empowerment show a significant positive correlation with overall quality of life and four other domains. But the community /policy empowerment is not significantly associated with overall quality of life and four other domains. 6.(1)The hierarchical regression analysis shows that the regression model has contributed to 23.3% variance in overall quality of life. The significant predictors of overall quality of life are family empowerment, informational support, instrumental support, and the frequency of early intervention services . (2)Path analysis shows that thru indirect mediation effect of overall empowerment, informational support will have a partial mediation effect on overall quality of life, and emotional support will have a completed mediation effect on overall quality of life. Based on the result of research, this study provides suggestion to early intervention services, related institutions, organizations, and researchers.