Open AccessStudy Of Relationship Between Attitude And Problems Experienced By Mothers Of Children With Cerebral Palsy
Author(s) -
Shaista Naz,
Nasir Sulman
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
pakistan journal of gender studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2663-8886
pISSN - 2072-0394
DOI - 10.46568/pjgs.v8i1.345
Subject(s) - cerebral palsy , affect (linguistics) , birth order , psychology , family income , developmental psychology , medicine , pediatrics , population , psychiatry , environmental health , communication , economics , economic growth
The present research work was carried out to study the attitudes and problems experienced by mothers of children with cerebral palsy. To achieve this broad objective, scales for the attitudes of mothers and problems experienced by them were developed. It was found that a mother's attitudes to cerebral palsy were determined by the severity of the child's disability. The severe the disability, the less favourable were the mother's attitudes. Mothers having better attitudes experienced less problems compared to those who had poor and unfavourable attitudes. The degree of cerebral palsy in the child and its I.Q. were seen to influence their problem score. The age, sex, birth order of the child, age of mother and the type of family did not affect the mother's problem score. However, parental education, occupation, habitat and family income were found to be directly related to their problems.