The effect of self- management empowering model on spiritual health of mothers with cerebral palsy

Cerebral palsy is of the most common chronic motor disease in children that has a negative effect on spiritual health of mothers as their main caregivers. Most studies just refer to a CP child, and mother as main caregiver who suffer a lot of stress was not considered. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of self- management empowering model on spiritual health of mother with cerebral palsy child.
This is a Randomized clinical- Trial study using the reliable spiritual health questionnaire (SWBS) for 72 mothers with cerebral palsy child in Bushehr and Shiraz Rehabilitation and Medical centers. A month and a half after pre-test, the post-test was done in both the case and control groups. The analysis of data was done through statistic tests (x2, T test and paired T test) by using SPSS v.18.
There was no significant difference between demographic information in two groups (P>0/05). In existential dimension of Spiritual health showed that there was a significant difference between two groups after intervention; but there was no significant difference in religious dimension of spiritual health after interventions.
Results showed that with increasing in spiritual health especially in existential dimension of spiritual health, mother’s self- management and empowerment will raise up.