Level of satisfaction and quality of life of caregivers of school going children with disability

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the Level of Satisfaction and Quality of life among Caregivers of School going Children with disability. Objectives: To evaluate the Level of Satisfaction and Quality of life of Caregivers of School going Children with Disability. Methodology: This study aimed to find out the Quality of life and level of satisfaction of caregivers of school going children with disability. For this reason, a quantitative research model in the form of a cross sectional type survey design was used. Cross sectional studies (also called a prevalence survey) aim at describing and quantifying the distribution of certain variables in a study population at point of time. It provided a snapshot of the health experience of a population at a given time (Hannan et al .2007). Researcher used this method so that the aim and objectives of the study can be fulfilled. Ethical permission was obtained from Institutional Review Board (IRB) and written informed consent was obtained from all participants. The study was conducted by using quantitative descriptive analysis through using SPSS software 22.0 version. Results: In the studied the caregivers of children with disability showed, 47.60% (n=20) described they had neither good nor poor QoL; 9.5%(n=4) described very poor,11,9%(n=5) showed poor,23.8%(n=10) described good and 7.1%(n=3) had very good quality of life. Conclusion: Among 42 participant’s caregivers of children with disability experienced moderate level of quality life and life satisfaction. Key words: Quality of life, satisfaction level, caregivers, Disable children. Abstract