The Effectiveness of Group Positive Parenting Program on Parental Stress and Mother-Child Interaction of Mother of Children with Nocturnal Enuresis

The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of teaching positive parenting on the parents' stress and child-mother relationships in mothers of children with enuresis. Therefore, in a semi-experimental design with pretest-posttest control group type, 30 mothers of 5-12 year-old children with enuresis referred to therapy centers were selected through available sampling method and they were randomly put into experimental and control groups (teaching positive parenting). Teaching positive parenting was administered in 8 ninety-minute sessions on the experimental group. All subjects responded to parents' stress and mother-child relationships questionnaires before intervention and at the end of it. The results of COVARIANCE analyses showed that teaching positive parenting was effective on parental stress (p<0.0006) and mother-child relationship (p<0.0001). According to the achieved results it can be proposed that teaching positive parenting leads to the decrease of the intensity of parental stress and improving child-mother relationships in the mothers of children with enuresis.