PMID- 36782255 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20230217 IS - 1751-0759 (Print) IS - 1751-0759 (Electronic) IS - 1751-0759 (Linking) VI - 17 IP - 1 DP - 2023 Feb 14 TI - Association between social support for mothers of patients with eating disorders and mothers' active listening attitude: a cohort study. PG - 4 LID - 10.1186/s13030-023-00262-9 [doi] LID - 4 AB - BACKGROUND: Family members of patients with eating disorders, especially their mothers, experience heavy caregiving burdens associated with supporting the patient. We predict that increasing caregivers' support will have a positive effect on their active listening attitudes, mental health, loneliness, and self-efficacy. This study aimed to investigate differences in mothers' active listening attitudes, mental health, loneliness, and self-efficacy improvements between mothers who did and did not experience increased perceived social support. MAIN BODY: Participants were mothers of patients with eating disorders. Questionnaires for this cohort study were sent to the participants' homes at three time points (baseline, 9 months, and 18 months). The Japanese version of the Social Provision Scale (SPS-10) was used to evaluate social support, the Active Listening Attitude Scale (ALAS) for listening attitude, the UCLA Loneliness Scale (ULS) for loneliness, the General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES) for self-efficacy, the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) for depression symptoms, and the K6 for psychological distress. An unpaired t-test was used to determine whether participants' status differed between the groups that did and did not experience increased perceived social support. The mean age of the participants was 55.1 +/- 6.7 (mean +/- SD) years. The duration of their children's eating disorders was 7.6 +/- 5.5 years. The degree of improvement for each variable (active listening attitude, loneliness, self-efficacy, depressive symptoms, and mental health) was the difference in each score (ALAS, ULS, GSES, BDI-II, and K6) from T1 to T3. The degree of improvement in active listening attitude and loneliness was significantly greater in the improved social support group than in the non-improved social support group (p < 0.002 and p < 0.012, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: Our findings indicate that increasing mothers' perceptions of social support will be associated with improving their active listening attitudes and loneliness. CI - (c) 2023. The Author(s). FAU - Katsuki, Fujika AU - Katsuki F AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-0822-4776 AD - Department of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Nursing, 1 Kawasumi, Mizuho-Cho, Mizuho-Ku, Nagoya, Japan. katsuki@med.nagoya-cu.ac.jp. FAU - Yamada, Atsurou AU - Yamada A AD - Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive-Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, 1 Kawasumi, Mizuho-Cho, Mizuho-Ku, Nagoya, Japan. FAU - Kondo, Masaki AU - Kondo M AD - Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive-Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, 1 Kawasumi, Mizuho-Cho, Mizuho-Ku, Nagoya, Japan. FAU - Sawada, Hanayo AU - Sawada H AD - Department of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Nursing, 1 Kawasumi, Mizuho-Cho, Mizuho-Ku, Nagoya, Japan. FAU - Watanabe, Norio AU - Watanabe N AD - Department of Psychiatry, Soseikai General Hospital, 101 Shimotoba, Hiroosa-Machi, Fushimiku, Kyoto, Japan. FAU - Akechi, Tatsuo AU - Akechi T AD - Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive-Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, 1 Kawasumi, Mizuho-Cho, Mizuho-Ku, Nagoya, Japan. LA - eng GR - 16K12256/Special Fund for Agro-scientific Research in the Public Interest/ PT - Journal Article DEP - 20230214 PL - England TA - Biopsychosoc Med JT - BioPsychoSocial medicine JID - 101286572 PMC - PMC9926733 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Caregiver OT - Eating disorders OT - Mother-patient relationship OT - Social support OT - Symptoms of eating disorders COIS- FK has received speaker fees from Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. AY has received medical fees from Gifu Hospital, speaker fees from Aichi Education and Sports Foundation, Kyowa Pharmaceutical Industry Co., Ltd., Meiji Seika Pharma Co., Ltd, Mental Care Association Japan, Mochida Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Shionogi & Co., Ltd., and other fees from Nagoya City. HS declares no conflicts of interest. MK reports a grant from Novartis Pharma K.K., personal fees from Shionogi & Co., Ltd., and personal fees from Yoshitomiyakuhin Corporation, outside the submitted work. TA has received lecture fees from Astra Zeneca Co., Ltd., Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd., Dainippon-Sumitomo Co., Ltd., Eisai Co., Ltd., Janssen Co., Ltd., Kyowa Co., Ltd., Eli Lilly Japan K.K., MSD K.K., Meiji -Seika Pharma Co., Ltd., Mochida Co., Ltd., Nipro Co., Ltd., Nihon-Zoki Co., Ltd., Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Pfizer Co., Ltd., Takeda Co., Ltd., and Tsumura Co., Ltd. TA has received research funds from Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd., FUJIFILM RI Pharma Co., Ltd., MSD Co., Ltd., Otsuka Co., Ltd., and Shionogi Co., Ltd. NW has received royalties from Sogensha, Medical View, and Advantage Risk Management. TA has received royalties from the Igaku-shoin. TA is the inventor of the pending patents (2019-017498 & 2020-135195). EDAT- 2023/02/15 06:00 MHDA- 2023/02/15 06:01 PMCR- 2023/02/14 CRDT- 2023/02/14 00:15 PHST- 2022/09/13 00:00 [received] PHST- 2023/01/30 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/02/14 00:15 [entrez] PHST- 2023/02/15 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/02/15 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2023/02/14 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1186/s13030-023-00262-9 [pii] AID - 262 [pii] AID - 10.1186/s13030-023-00262-9 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Biopsychosoc Med. 2023 Feb 14;17(1):4. doi: 10.1186/s13030-023-00262-9.