Family Support and Motivation Relationship with Care for Children with Mental Disable

Abstract

Mentally retarded children have limited intelligence and limitations in self-careabilities. So it takes support and motivation from the family. It was knowing the relationship between family support, understanding the relationship between family support and motivation to care for children with mental disabled.
 This research is a quantitative research with Cross Sectional design. This research was carried out on Agust 2021 at elementary school Sekolah Luar biasa. Total Sampling was used in this study, with a sample size of 54. We used family support questioner and motivation mother questioner. The association of the family support and motivation were confirmate by Chi-Square test test using SPSS 26.0.
 The results of this study indicate that the majority of respondents have good family support, as many as 51.9% respondents, high motivation as many as 51.9% respondents, and mental disable child care well as many as 61.1% respondents. In addition, there is family support p-value = 0.045 (CI 95%) and motivation p-value = 0.047 (CI 95%) for mental disable child care.
 The research results should be used as input for schools about the importance of family support for children with mental disable byproviding information and counseling about the care of children with mental disable both in the school environment and at home.