Quality of life among mothers of school going Children with cerebral palsy.

Abstract

Cerebral palsy is one of the most common congenital disorders of childhood. That affects muscle tone, movement, and motor skills. And that’s why they are dependent on their family, and the family especially the mother take the responsibilities to take care of the children with lot of stresses. And this condition decreases the quality of life of mother. Purpose: Identify the quality of life among mothers of school going children with cerebral palsy. Objectives: To identify the lifestyle of mothers of children with cerebral palsy. Methodology: Here use the cross sectional study method with 65 participants of mothers with their CP children. In additionally identify the quality of life among mothers of school going children with cerebral palsy.Results: Data was analyzed by using SPSS version 20. Microsoft Excel Work 2013. In this study total 65 participants of mothers with cerebral palsy children. Here minimum age of the mothers was 20 years and maximum age was 42 years. Among that the mean age of the mothers was 32.92 years and SD was 4.715. Among 65 participant mothers, most of them (50.8%) was completed secondary education level. All the 65 participants, 21.5% (n=14) got marriage with their cousin and 78.5% (n=51) was not. Quality of life of mothers was detected by a questionnaire WHOQOL-BREF and there was 4 domains, from these domains the mothers physical health was 53.8%(n=35) low quality of life and psychological health was 46.2%(n=30) low quality of life and social relationship was 53.8%( n=35) low quality of life and environmental health 40%(n=26) high quality of life. Conclusion: It was true that QoL of mothers was not very good with CP children, therefore, to increase QoL of mothers should be motivated them to join social activities related to their interests, and also care their own health. Mothers with depressive symptoms should be psychologically supported. Keywords: Cerebral Palsy, Quality of life of mother, WHOQOL-BREF