Effectiveness of Pennsylvania Resiliency Program on Parental Burnout and Child Abuse Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Mothers of Primary School Students

Covid-19 disease has many psychological consequences, such as parental burnout and child abuse, In addition to physical injuries. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of Pennsylvania resilience-based intervention on parental burnout and child abuse caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in mothers of elementary school students.

The research method was quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test with control group. The statistical population of the study consisted of mothers of first grade students in Ardakan city in the academic year 2020-2021. 30 people were selected by voluntary sampling method based on inclusion criteria and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The instruments of this study included the Parental Burnout Scale (Rosecom et al., 2018) and Child Abuse (Hosseinkhani et al., 2013). The Pennsylvania resuscitation program was presented to the experimental group on a weekly basis for twelve 1.5-hour sessions, and the control group did not receive training. The data were analyzed using chi-square and multivariate analysis of covariance in SPSS26 statistical software.

The results showed that there was no significant difference between the two groups in terms of demographic variables of age and education (p<0.05). Other results showed that the Pennsylvania Resiliency Program was effective in reducing the scores of parental burnout (p<0.001, F= 27.168) and child abuse (p<0.001, F= 37.466) Caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in mothers of primary school students.

The Pennsylvania resiliency program to be used as an effective intervention to reduce parental burnout and child abuse caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in the mothers of elementary school students, along with other educational and therapeutic methods.