Föräldrar till barn med Downs Syndrom : Skillnader i upplevelser av stöd mellan mödrar och fäder.

Sammanfattning: Every year 120 children with Downs Syndrome is born in Sweden. The aim of the study was to investigate if there were any differences between mothers and fathers of children with Downs Syndrome regarding: experience of support from health care personnel and physicians in the time of delivery and from who parents sought most emotional support. Participants of the study was 80 mothers and 79 fathers that answered a questionnaire. There was a difference between parents if they thought they received support from health care personnel, mothers (59 %) and fathers (38 %) thought that they didn’t receive support. Emotional support sought mothers (52 %), in grater wideness then the fathers (23 %), with other families with handicapped children. Both mothers (79 %) and fathers (77 %) answered that they sought the mort emotional support with there spouse.