mediating role of social health in the relationship of parenting stress and child-parent interaction with health-related quality of life in parents of children with specific learning disorder

Background: health-related quality of life (hrqol) can predict the amount and impact of the disease, damages, and inabilities; moreover, it can assess an individual’s psychological health. objectives: the present study aimed to assess the mediating role of social health in the relationship of parenting stress and child-parent interaction with hrqol in parents of children with a specific learning disorder (sld). methods: this descriptive-correlational study was conducted using path analysis. the study population comprised all parents of children with sld in andimeshk in 2020-21, among whom 174 parents were selected via convenience sampling. the research instruments included the sf-36 questionnaire (weber, 1992), parenting stress index (abidin, 1992), child-parent relationship scale (pianta, 1994), and keyes’s social health questionnaire (keyes, 1998). the proposed model was evaluated using path analysis with amos software (version 25). results: the results pointed to a significant relationship between child-parent interaction and hrqol (β=0.204, p=0.004), social health and hrqol (β=0.383, p<0.001), parenting stress and social health (β=-0.561, p<0.001), as well as child-parent interaction and social life (β=0.152, p=0.016). furthermore, the indirect paths of parenting stress and hrqol mediated by social health (p<0.001), as well as the relationship between child-parent interaction and the hrqol mediated by social health (p=0.021), were all significant. conclusion: the final model achieved a desirable good fit; therefore, this model could be considered an important step in understanding effective factors in the hrqol in parents of children with sld.