Family resilience and subjective responses to caregiving for children with epilepsy

•The care process involves both positive and negative subjective response for caregivers of children with epilepsy.•Family resilience could enhance the positive aspects of caregiving.•Family resilience has a positive effect on caregiver burdens.•Clinicians should focus on interventions aimed at increasing family resilience. This study quantified caregiver burdens and the positive aspects of caregiving for the parents of children with epilepsy, with a focus on the impacts of family resilience as a protective factor for the caring process. This cross-sectional study was conducted among 173 parents of children with epilepsy, all of whom responded to questionnaires containing the shortened Chinese version of the Family Resilience Assessment Scale (FRAS-C), positive aspects of caregiving scale (PAC), and Chinese version of the Zarit Caregiver Burden Interview (CZBI). They also provided relevant sociodemographic data. The mean CZBI total score was 22.16 (SD, 14.26; range, 0–71), while the mean PAC total score was 40.05 (SD, 11.09; range 11–55). The FRAS-C total score was positively correlated with the PAC total score (r = 0.368, p