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Abstract Aim: To compare the management of the burden by the family of a hospitalized child belonging to the Roma ethnic minority and the family of a hospitalized child belonging to the majority population. Methods: The sample consisted of parents of children aged 0-6 years who were hospitalized in children's wards in the Moravian-Silesian Region at the Ostrava City Hospital, the University Hospital and the Havířov Hospital with Polyclinic. The F-COPES questionnaire, supplemented with sociodemographic parameters, was used to determine the coping mechanisms and behaviour of families in response to difficult situations. The obtained data were processed in the statistical program NCSS 2007. A non-parametric Wilcoxon two-sample test and a non-parametric analysis of variance called the Kruskal-Wallis test were used to determine the relationships between the sociodemographic characteristics and the questionnaire items assessed. Statistical tests were evaluated at the statistical significance level of α = 0.05 (5 %). Descriptive statistics were used. Results: Compared to non-Roma families, parents of children belonging to the Roma ethnic minority showed greater resilience and adaptability and were part of optimally functioning families. The use of external coping strategies significantly exceeded the use of internal strategies for both groups. For non-Roma parents, the most frequently used strategy was Reframing, and the second most frequently selected strategy was Gaining Social Support. The least utilized strategy for neroma parents was Seeking Spiritual Support. Parents classified as Roma chose Getting Social Support as the most used strategy and the second most used coping strategy was Reframing. The least used strategy by Roma was Seeking Spiritual Support. Conclusion: Every family has to overcome a series of crises in the course of its development, faces a number of stressful situations and is forced to adapt to the newly arrived changes. Knowledge and skills in dealing with the stresses in specific families, can provide useful data for intervention strategies for health care professionals, aimed at optimizing support activities in relation to the resilience of particular family models from a transcultural nursing perspective.