Start Date
17-6-2025 9:00 AM
End Date
17-6-2025 10:30 AM
Abstract
Introduction The family is the first basic social group shaping awareness of a healthy lifestyle in children through their daily functioning. The situation of families with children with disabilities is affected by "disability" and often needs support in order to offer the conditions for positive formation of an active lifestyle awareness. We investigated the burnout syndrome (BS) among parents caring for a child with a disability (with emphasis on the support and services offered and using the parents' free time for physical activities (SDG 11, 16).
Methodology Data collection was done by a questionnaire survey based on the questionnaire Burnout Measure (BM) - CZ (Malach-Pines, 2005). Questionnaire was available online on the Survio platform, the respondents were clients of Early care centres and the Parental platform at Facebook. Participants are 204 parents caring for a child with disabilities.
Results The survey showed that from 204 respondents 83 (41%) fall into the category BM4 of confirmed BS (35%) and BM5 acute phase of BS (6%), which we consider extremely alarming. Only 35 respondents reach satisfactory state BM2 (17%) and good mental state BM1 11 respondents (6%). Respondents who have time for hobbies and engage in PA lasting at least 30 minutes a day have a lower rate of burnout. Respondents who have someone to ask for help show lower rates of BS, hence better mental health status.
Conclusions The data show the importance of the leisure time factor, including doing leisure sport, for the prevention of BS among parents of children with disabilities. The family's right to leisure time and its active use by these families must necessarily be supported by society's arrangements, community support. The forms of arrangements and support are discussed.
References Malach-Pines, A. (2005). The Burnout Measure, Short Version. International Journal of Stress Management, 12(1), 78–88.
Recommended Citation
Wittmannová, Julie and Kratochvílová, Renáta, "The right to use leisure time for physical activities and sport in families with children with disabilities: parental burnout syndrome" (2025). International Symposium of Adapted Physical Activity and International Symposium on Physical Activity and Visual Impairment and Deafblindness. 21.
https://sword.cit.ie/isapa/2025/day2/21
The right to use leisure time for physical activities and sport in families with children with disabilities: parental burnout syndrome
Introduction The family is the first basic social group shaping awareness of a healthy lifestyle in children through their daily functioning. The situation of families with children with disabilities is affected by "disability" and often needs support in order to offer the conditions for positive formation of an active lifestyle awareness. We investigated the burnout syndrome (BS) among parents caring for a child with a disability (with emphasis on the support and services offered and using the parents' free time for physical activities (SDG 11, 16).
Methodology Data collection was done by a questionnaire survey based on the questionnaire Burnout Measure (BM) - CZ (Malach-Pines, 2005). Questionnaire was available online on the Survio platform, the respondents were clients of Early care centres and the Parental platform at Facebook. Participants are 204 parents caring for a child with disabilities.
Results The survey showed that from 204 respondents 83 (41%) fall into the category BM4 of confirmed BS (35%) and BM5 acute phase of BS (6%), which we consider extremely alarming. Only 35 respondents reach satisfactory state BM2 (17%) and good mental state BM1 11 respondents (6%). Respondents who have time for hobbies and engage in PA lasting at least 30 minutes a day have a lower rate of burnout. Respondents who have someone to ask for help show lower rates of BS, hence better mental health status.
Conclusions The data show the importance of the leisure time factor, including doing leisure sport, for the prevention of BS among parents of children with disabilities. The family's right to leisure time and its active use by these families must necessarily be supported by society's arrangements, community support. The forms of arrangements and support are discussed.
References Malach-Pines, A. (2005). The Burnout Measure, Short Version. International Journal of Stress Management, 12(1), 78–88.