Identifying the Factors of Resilience in Mothers Having Children with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): A Qualitative Research

The resilience in mothers having children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and the factors influencing on it is an important issue which requires a comprehensive study. Apart from point of views about the negative and positive effect of having children with ADHD ,the question is why some mothers with ADHD children have much more successful performance than the others? The purpose of present study has been to identify those factors involved in resilience in mothers having children with ADHD.

In this content analysis qualitative research. Twenty three experienced resilience mothers were selected by targeted sampling through a semi-structured interview until the data were completely saturated.

By analyzing the data, four main categories and twelve sub-categories were obtained. The category of personal and psychological factors was divided into sub-categories of self-feeling, self-efficiency, sense of purposefulness, skill of problem-solving and attitudinal factors; the category of family factors was included husband support and the other family members; the category of social factors was included the interpersonal skill, social support and social awareness, spiritual powers was involved the religion belief and descriptions of Islam.

The results of this research help the professionals as well as healthcare and educational centers to formulate the necessary programs related to the mothers having children with ADHD given the identified factors to receive the required skills. Training those factors to the mothers having ADHD children will contribute to increase the mothers' resilience and to avoid experiencing any failures in their life.