Title

Nurse-led health session: Impact on parental burnout and well-being among mothers of autistic children

Authors

Savinitha Jose¹, Shankar Shanmugam Rajendran²*, Vanitha Narayanasamy Naidu¹, Winston Thomas Sundarsingh³, Uma Rajaram¹, Gayathri Kannadasan² & Sowbaghya Jose⁴

Affiliation

¹Department of Community Health Nursing, College of Nursing, Madras Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India; ²Department of Child Health Nursing, College of Nursing, Madras Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India; ³Department of Paediatrics, Institute of Child Health & Hospital, Madras Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India; ⁴Department of Community Health Nursing, Institute of Child Health, Chennai, India; *Corresponding author

Email

Savinitha Jose - E-mail: jsavinitha1988@gmail.com
Shankar Shanmugam Rajendran - E-mail: shankarshaki@yahoo.com
Vanitha Narayanasamy Naidu - E-mail: nvanitha967@gmail.com
Winston Thomas Sundarsingh - E-mail: drwinstonthomas@gmail.com
Uma Rajaram - E-mail: gubendranpreetish@gmail.com
Gayathri Kannadasan - E-mail: 952439.jj@gmail.com
Sowbaghya Jose - E-mail: Valsaow2k14@gmail.com

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received August 1, 2025; Revised August 31, 2025; Accepted August 31, 2025, Published August 31, 2025

Abstract

A nurse-led health session on reduce parental burnout and enhancing well-being among mothers of children with autism. Using a quasi-experimental design with 60 participants, this study evaluated the effect of a nurse-led health session on lowering parental burnout and improving well-being among mothers of autistic children in Egmore, Chennai. Following the intervention, the experimental group's well-being increased by 17.79% and their burnout decreased by 13.53%. Burnout ratings dropped from 82.07 (SD = 11.61) to 63.40 (SD = 5.71), and mean well-being scores rose from 37.97 (SD = 10.35) to 52.20 (SD = 5.89), both of which were statistically significant (p = 0.001). Age, occupation, family type, and information source all showed substantial correlations.

Keywords

Impact, parental well, mothers of autistic children, parental burnout, and nurse-led health session, parental well-being

Citation

Jose et al. Bioinformation 21(8): 2720-2723 (2025)

Edited by

Ritik Kashwani

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.