Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-g7gxr Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-05T21:44:51.574Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Psychosocial profile of encopretic children and their caregivers in relation to parenting style

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

E. Zaky ,
M. Rashad ,
H. Elsafoury  and
E. Ismail
E. Zaky*
Affiliation:
Ain Shams University, Pediatrics, Cairo, Egypt
M. Rashad
Affiliation:
Ain Shams University, Pediatrics, Cairo, Egypt
H. Elsafoury
Affiliation:
Ain Shams University, Pediatric Surgery, Cairo, Egypt
E. Ismail
Affiliation:
Ain Shams University, Pediatrics, Cairo, Egypt
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.
Background

The role of psychological factors in the development and maintenance of encopresis is controversial.

Objectives

Assessment of the psychosocial profile of encopretic children and their caregivers in relation to parenting style compared to controls.

Methodology

The current cross sectional study comprised 90 Egyptian children classified into three groups: group I (encopresis without constipation and overflow incontinence), group II (encopresis with constipation and overflow incontinence), and group III (clinically healthy controls); each group included 30 children. Thorough clinical evaluation and psychometric assessment were carried out for all enrolled children while caregivers were evaluated for their parenting styles, anxiety, depression, and introversion scores.

Results

Hardness, undue blaming, and indecisive parenting styles were significantly more prevalent among caregivers of group I. Encopretic children of group I & II had poorer self-esteem and higher prevalence of clinically manifest depression compared to healthy controls. Furthermore, there was a higher prevalence of clinically manifest paternal anxiety, depression, and introversion and maternal depression among caregivers of group II and higher prevalence of clinically manifest paternal anxiety and depression among fathers of group I.

Conclusion

The approach of toilet training, not the time of its initiation, seems to be the factor that really matters in predisposing to and perpetuating encopresis. Further exploration is needed to determine if the documented association of psychological disorders of enrolled encopretic children and their caregivers was causal or being just the impact of the child's encopresis.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
EV312
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 33 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 24th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2016 , pp. S362
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2016
Submit a response

Comments

No Comments have been published for this article.