التوتر لدى أمهات الأطفال المصابين بالسرطان و علاقته بالصدمة النفسية لديهن في مدينة الرياض

الملخص EN

This research aimed at studying Stress among the mothers of children with cancer and its relation to psychological trauma in Riyadh City.

The research sample (N=55) consisted of mothers who accompany their children with cancer.

In conducting this research, the researcher relied on the following tools: -Stress scale and the Psychological Trauma Scale which are prepared by the researcher.

The most important results are: -There is a statistically significant positive relationship at a significant level (0.01) between the dimensions of stress and the level of psychological trauma in mothers of children with cancer.

- There is no statistically significant relationship between some demographic variables for mothers of children with cancer (nature of work - marital status - educational level- financial income of the family) and the dimensions of stress among mothers, and this means that the dimensions of stress do not differ by the differ of some demographic variables.

-There is a statistically significant correlation relationship between some demographic variables for mothers of children with cancer (nature of work - marital status- educational level - financial income of the family) and their level of psychological trauma, as it was found from the results of this hypothesis that there is no statistical relationship between these variables and the level of psychological trauma of mothers, which made us reject the third hypothesis of the research.

The researcher used the descriptive approach in this research.