The Impact of Pediatric Surgical Diseases on the Parental Life From the Questionnaires to Divorced Mothers

Kobayashi Kumiko, Kubota Masayuki, Okuyama Naoki, Hirayama Yutaka, Tsukada Mami, Sato Kanako

doi:10.11164/jjsps.45.5_825

Purpose: Pediatric surgical diseases often necessitate a long-term hospitalization. In this condition, we occasionally experience a divorcement of the patient's parents. It is suspected that a long-term hospitalization might affect the marital condition. So, the impact of pediatric surgical diseases on the marital condition was examined through questionnaires to mothers who experienced divorce during the treatment of her child's disease. Patients and Methods: Six divorced mothers, whose child was currently under treatment in a hospital or outpatient clinic, were interviewed by telephone for enrollment in the study and five mothers agreed to participate. Questionnaires were about their divorcement, requests of the hospital and agreement to public presentation. Their children's diseases were CIIPS, short-gut syndrome, cloaca, small bowel atresia and atresia ani. Results: None of the five mothers thought divorce would not have happened if her child was healthy. Two denied this concept, while others gave miscellaneous replies. However, one mother had a feeling of impending crisis of divorcement when she knew her child needed a long hospitalization, while two were opposed to this opinion and two gave miscellaneous replies. Three mothers agreed that a long-term hospitalization was considered to be an important contributing factor for divorce. Full-time childcare was hoped for by three mothers, while three disagreed with it. They complained of psychological stress in a sharedroom with other children and called for paternal guidance for childcare and education from the hospital. Conclusion: Pediatric surgical disease was not considered as a direct factor for divorcement but it might impose a considerable strain on the marital condition. A need for education and guidance for fathers was often called for by divorced mothers.

The Impact of Pediatric Surgical Diseases on the Parental Life From the Questionnaires to Divorced Mothers

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