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MENTAL HEALTH OF THE PARENTS OF AUTISTIC CHILDREN IN RELATION TO THEIR EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT STATUS
By: Kazi Imrul Kayesh,Sabina Sultana,Noor Muhammad
Key Words: Mental health, autism, level of education, employment status.
JLES-Vol-14-No-P-39-45, December 2019.
AbstractThe current study was intended to inspect the mental health of parents of children with autism in relation to their level of education and employment status. A total of 284 parents were selected purposively from different districts of Rajshahi division in Bangladesh. Anxiety of the respondents was measured by administering Anxiety Measuring Questionnaire (Deeba and Begum 2002) and depression of the respondents was measured by applying Depression Measuring Questionnaire (Uddin and Rahman 2005). Adapted Bangla version of Life Stress Measuring Questionnaire (Fahim 2001) originally developed by Cohen, 1999 was used to measure the life stress of the same participants. Results of the study indicate that parents differed significantly in anxiety (F = 18.434, p < 0.001), depression (F = 30.919, p < 0.001), and stress (F = 28.664, p < 0.001) scores in terms of their level of education. Parents also varied in anxiety (t = 2.755, p < 0.01), depression (t = 4.209, p < 0.001) and stress (t = 4.606, p < 0.001) scores in terms of their employment status. Unemployed parents suffered from more anxiety, depression and stress due to their beloved children’s health condition as compared to employed parents.
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Kazi Imrul Kayesh,Sabina Sultana,Noor Muhammad
MENTAL HEALTH OF THE PARENTS OF AUTISTIC CHILDREN IN RELATION TO THEIR EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT STATUS
JLES-Vol-14-No-P-39-45, December 2019.
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