Sleep quality, caregiver burden, and individual resilience among parents of children with epilepsy

Purpose: Parents caring for children with epilepsy have poor sleep quality and experience a certain level of caregiving burden. Individual resilience is a crucial psychological variable that contributes to health during extraordinary challenges. This study aimed to determine the relationships among individual resi-lience, caregiver burden, and sleep quality.Methods: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study with a convenience sample, following the STROBE guidelines. One hundred and ninety-one parents of children with epilepsy were invited to participate in the study. Of these, 173 participants completed measures of sleep quality, caregiver burden, and individ-ual resilience. Path analysis was performed to probe the indirect relationship between individual resili-ence and sleep quality via caregiver burden.Results: Correlation analysis revealed that individual resilience total scores were significantly and mar-ginally negatively correlated with caregiver burden and sleep quality total scores (r =-0.215, P <.01; r =-0.250, P <.01). Moreover, there was a significant moderate positive correlation between the total caregiver burden scores and total sleep quality scores (r = 0.389, P <.001). The path model showed that individual resilience is indirectly associated with sleep quality via caregiver burden.Conclusion: The higher the level of individual resilience, the less the caregiver burden and the better the sleep quality for parents of children with epilepsy.(c) 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.