Social support, depression, and quality of life among parents of children with cerebral palsy in Benin, West Africa: a cross-sectional case-control study
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Caring for a child with cerebral palsy (CP) is challenging and can significantly impact caregivers' quality of life. This study aimed to examine the psychological state, perceived social support, and quality of life of parents of children with CP in Benin, West Africa. This cross-sectional, case-control design included 50 parents of children with CP (mean age 39.4 ± 8.3 years, 46 mothers) paired with 58 parents of typically developing children (mean age 38.1 ± 7.4 years, 52 mothers) as controls. Both groups completed the Social Provisions Scale (SPS-10), Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), and Medical Outcome Study Short Form (SF-12) to assess social support, depression, and quality of life. Additionally, parents of children with CP completed the Impact on Family Scale to evaluate caregiving burden. The results showed that parents of children with CP reported lower social support and higher depression levels than controls ( P < 0.05). However, their quality of life (both physical and mental scores) was similar to the control group ( P > 0.05). Only depression was significantly linked to lower quality of life ( P < 0.05) in parents of children with CP. In conclusion, parents of children with CP have a comparable physical and mental health-related quality of life to parents of typically developing children, despite experiencing lower perceived social support and higher levels of depression in Benin country. These findings underscore the need for enhanced social and psychological support systems to improve the well-being of families caring for children with CP in such environments.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".