Quality of Life of Mothers who have Intellectual Disabled Children in Ankara Turkey: A Survey Study
The study aims to determine the quality of life and its associated factors among mothers’ who have disabled children quality of life in Ankara Turkey. Methods: 22 special education and rehabilitation centers were included. According to the number of students in special education centers (totally 3117 children), used stratified sampling model of large, medium and small as divided. In total, 790 people respectively. 6 institutions did not allow to the study. Therefore, we interweaved totally 540 mothers by face to face interview. Study instruments included World Health Organization Quality of Life Questionnaire-Brief Version (WHOQOL-BREF-TR), questionnaire for Socio-demographic variables. T test, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and in the multiple comparisons Bonferroni test was used. P-value <0.05 was considered statistically significant Results: The mean (Standard deviation) for the physical domain was 13.1±2.2, 13.3±2.3 for the psychological domain, 13.6±2.9 for the social domain, and 13.0±2.3 for the environment domain, 12.9±2.1 environment TR domain. Factors significantly associated with quality of life included age, level of education and marriage, economic status, social support (all domains), future thinking, having more tahn one disabled child, time to allow herself, the most interested in whole day. Conclusion: This study confirms that multiple factors are associated with quality of life among women who have disabled children. Age, educational status, marital status, economical status, social relationships were significantly associated with all the domains of quality of life. Among the four domains of quality of life, the social domain had the highest score while environmental TR domain had the lowest score.
Anahtar Kelimeler: Women, Quality of Life, Intellectual Disability, Social Work, Ankara
Quality of Life of Mothers who have Intellectual Disabled Children in Ankara Turkey: A Survey Study
The study aims to determine the quality of life and its associated factors among mothers’ who have disabled children quality of life in Ankara Turkey. Methods: 22 special education and rehabilitation centers were included. According to the number of students in special education centers (totally 3117 children), used stratified sampling model of large, medium and small as divided. In total, 790 people respectively. 6 institutions did not allow to the study. Therefore, we interweaved totally 540 mothers by face to face interview. Study instruments included World Health Organization Quality of Life Questionnaire-Brief Version (WHOQOL-BREF-TR), questionnaire for Socio-demographic variables. T test, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and in the multiple comparisons Bonferroni test was used. P-value <0.05 was considered statistically significant Results: The mean (Standard deviation) for the physical domain was 13.1±2.2, 13.3±2.3 for the psychological domain, 13.6±2.9 for the social domain, and 13.0±2.3 for the environment domain, 12.9±2.1 environment TR domain. Factors significantly associated with quality of life included age, level of education and marriage, economic status, social support (all domains), future thinking, having more tahn one disabled child, time to allow herself, the most interested in whole day. Conclusion: This study confirms that multiple factors are associated with quality of life among women who have disabled children. Age, educational status, marital status, economical status, social relationships were significantly associated with all the domains of quality of life. Among the four domains of quality of life, the social domain had the highest score while environmental TR domain had the lowest score.
Keywords: Women, Quality of Life, Intellectual Disability, Social Work, Ankara