A Comparison of Quality of Life in Caregivers of Mental Retardation and Autism Children
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Applied Medical Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 10
Abstract
Abstract: Autism and Intellectual disability have significant impact on family members. Both are associated with poor communication, academic and social skills that make the child more dependent on the caregiver than the normal child.so we aimed at assessing the Quality of life of caregivers of Mental Retardation and Autism children using WHO-QOL BREF. Our study showed that QOL of these caregivers has significantly affected (p<0.05). The QOL of Caregivers of MR is more affected than that of Autism. Among the individual domains psychological domain is the most affected. The index study points out that the parents with high as well as low education and of all socioeconomic groups suffer the same contrary to the findings of earlier studies. Further mothers need more help than fathers. Skills training to the caregivers can help them to deal effectively with the children with such disabled children. Keywords: Mental retardation(MR), Autism, QOL, Caregiver.
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Dasika. Sreekeerthi
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