Abstract
The study pertains to the parenting stress, which is believed to be the resultant of child disability and further assesses the needs of the families across selected pockets of Himachal Himalaya. Perceived Stress Questionnaire (PSQ) and Need Assessment Scale were used for the purpose. For assessing the stress level among the parents, PQS was administered among two hundred parents having disabled children, herein called experimental group and two hundred parents with normal children, herein called control group. A three point Need assessment scale was used to measure the needs of 200 families on five different parameters. The result of t-test shows the significant difference between experimental and control groups indicating that the parents of disabled children experience more stress than their control counterpart. The study indicates that people need proper guidance and information regarding a child’s disability, nutritional requirements of a child, vocational training and child management. There is a need for proper counselling for parents suffering from stress and creating consciousness among parents of children with disabilities and in the society.
Highlights
Nurturing a child with disabilities is a tough task for parents, which imposes additional financial burden on them, resulting in stress (Tew & Laurence, 1975; Stein, 1988; Miller et al, 1992)
The study pertains to the parenting stress, which is believed to be the resultant of child disability and further assesses the needs of the families across selected pockets of Himachal Himalaya
Perceived Stress Questionnaire (PSQ) and Need Assessment Scale were used for the purpose
Summary
Nurturing a child with disabilities is a tough task for parents, which imposes additional financial burden on them, resulting in stress (Tew & Laurence, 1975; Stein, 1988; Miller et al, 1992). Abidin (1995), admits that stressors are multi-dimensional both in source and kind He noted three source areas of stressors for parents: a) Child characteristics, b) Parent characteristics, and c) Situational/ demographic. There are several aspects, of both the child and the parent that could impairs this view of stress in the parenting role, and is probably the contributing factor to greater levels of perceived parenting stress. Lack of resources, including nutrition, treatment and resilient medical equipment adds to the stress of parents having disabled children. Though an array of causes adds to the increased level of stress for caregivers of children with debilities, acuteness of child’s behavior problems is often the toughest interpreter of parental stress (Floyd & Gallagher, 1997; Hassall et al, 2005; Nachshen et al, 2005)
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