The Effect Of Parent Training Programme On The Quality Of Home And Community Living Dimension Of The Children With Mental Retardation
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The present study was conducted to study the effect of parent Training Programme (PTP) on the Quality of Life of the children with mental retardation. The Study was conducted on 60 Parents (Both mother and father) each in the experimental group and control group using scientific method of sample selection. The Pre– Post test Treatment designs was used to study the effect of Parent Training Programme on the parental stress of the parents having children with mental retardation so as to see its effect on the Quality of Life of their Children having Mental Retardation. Binet-Kamat (1937, 1967) Test of Intelligence (Indian Adaptation), Parental Stress Scale (Mishra, 2001) and Quality of Life Scale for Persons with Disabilities (QUALIS-PWD) developed by Mishra (2001) were used to take the observation of the participants. The observations were analyzed using analysis of covariance after satisfying the conditions of testing the assumption of control on the independent variable and homogeneity of regression to apply ANCOVA. The result showed the significant difference between the experimental group and control group on the parental stress of the participants at .05 level of significance and consequently on the Quality of Home and Community Living dimension of the of quality of life the children with mental retardation at .01 level of significance.
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