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Caregiver burden in children with intellectual disability: Does special school education help?
BACKGROUND: Caregivers are playing a vital role in mentally ill patients in India. Families of children with intellectual disability encounter a high degree of stress such as physical, emotional, and financial. AIM: The aim of this study was to compare and evaluate the caregiver burden and depressio...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7660008/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33223709 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ipj.ipj_7_15 |
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author | Ramasubramanian, Vikhram Chellamuthu, Ramasubramanian Selvikumari, R. Pandian, P. Raja Soundara Gopi, R. |
author_facet | Ramasubramanian, Vikhram Chellamuthu, Ramasubramanian Selvikumari, R. Pandian, P. Raja Soundara Gopi, R. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Caregivers are playing a vital role in mentally ill patients in India. Families of children with intellectual disability encounter a high degree of stress such as physical, emotional, and financial. AIM: The aim of this study was to compare and evaluate the caregiver burden and depression between the special school-going children and nonschool-going children with intellectual disability. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The present study was conducted on caregivers of patients with intellectual disability at Radianz Health Care and Research Private Limited, Ahana Hospitals, Akash Special School, and M. S. Chellamuthu Trust and Research Foundation, Madurai. The Zarit Burden Interview scale was utilized to assess the level of burden experienced by the caregivers. The Major Depression Inventory scale was utilized to assess the severity of depression experienced by the caregivers. The Binet Kamat Test of Intelligence was administered by a psychologist to assess the IQ level of the children. RESULTS: Totally 80 caregivers were participated in the study. The mothers of children with intellectual disability suffered from burden and depression when compared to the fathers (P < 0.0001). The parents of nonschool-going children had a higher level of burden and depression as compared to the parents of special school-going children (P < 0.0001). CONCLUSION: Special school is playing a vital role for children with intellectual disability. It can be reasonably concluded from the study that both the groups face burden and depression. However, the severity of burden and depression is comparatively higher among parents of nonschool-going children. |
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spelling | pubmed-76600082020-11-19 Caregiver burden in children with intellectual disability: Does special school education help? Ramasubramanian, Vikhram Chellamuthu, Ramasubramanian Selvikumari, R. Pandian, P. Raja Soundara Gopi, R. Ind Psychiatry J Original Article BACKGROUND: Caregivers are playing a vital role in mentally ill patients in India. Families of children with intellectual disability encounter a high degree of stress such as physical, emotional, and financial. AIM: The aim of this study was to compare and evaluate the caregiver burden and depression between the special school-going children and nonschool-going children with intellectual disability. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The present study was conducted on caregivers of patients with intellectual disability at Radianz Health Care and Research Private Limited, Ahana Hospitals, Akash Special School, and M. S. Chellamuthu Trust and Research Foundation, Madurai. The Zarit Burden Interview scale was utilized to assess the level of burden experienced by the caregivers. The Major Depression Inventory scale was utilized to assess the severity of depression experienced by the caregivers. The Binet Kamat Test of Intelligence was administered by a psychologist to assess the IQ level of the children. RESULTS: Totally 80 caregivers were participated in the study. The mothers of children with intellectual disability suffered from burden and depression when compared to the fathers (P < 0.0001). The parents of nonschool-going children had a higher level of burden and depression as compared to the parents of special school-going children (P < 0.0001). CONCLUSION: Special school is playing a vital role for children with intellectual disability. It can be reasonably concluded from the study that both the groups face burden and depression. However, the severity of burden and depression is comparatively higher among parents of nonschool-going children. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019 2020-08-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7660008/ /pubmed/33223709 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ipj.ipj_7_15 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Industrial Psychiatry Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Ramasubramanian, Vikhram Chellamuthu, Ramasubramanian Selvikumari, R. Pandian, P. Raja Soundara Gopi, R. Caregiver burden in children with intellectual disability: Does special school education help? |
title | Caregiver burden in children with intellectual disability: Does special school education help? |
title_full | Caregiver burden in children with intellectual disability: Does special school education help? |
title_fullStr | Caregiver burden in children with intellectual disability: Does special school education help? |
title_full_unstemmed | Caregiver burden in children with intellectual disability: Does special school education help? |
title_short | Caregiver burden in children with intellectual disability: Does special school education help? |
title_sort | caregiver burden in children with intellectual disability: does special school education help? |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7660008/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33223709 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ipj.ipj_7_15 |
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