جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "mothers of children with special needs" در نشریات گروه "پزشکی"

The quality of life of mothers is of great importance, particularly in mothers of children with special needs. The current study aimed at determining the correlation between quality of life of mothers of children with special needs and their demographic characteristics in Tehran, Iran.
The present descriptive-correlational study was conducted on mothers of primary school children with special needs who studied at special schools in Tehran, in the academic year of 2013-2014. A total of 190 mothers were selected through stratified random sampling method. To collect data, a demographic questionnaire and the “quality of life scale for mothers of children with special needs” were used. The validity and reliability of the latter scale were measured in the previous study. Data were analyzed with SPSS version 21.
According to the results of the current study, mothers of children with special needs had low quality of life. All in all, the results indicated that the lowest and highest mean scores belonged to social relationships and religious-spiritual domain as 40.92 ± 18.86 and 81.4 ± 17.73, respectively.
According to the results of the current study, mothers of children with special needs have low quality of life. Professionals and health care providers should pay more attention to psychological well-being of mothers of children with special needs in order to improve their quality of life.

Health and wellbeing of mothers of children with special needs as a vulnerable group in society is very important. The aim of this study was to determine the health level of mothers with special needs children in Zanjan province.
This study was a descriptive-correlational research. The sample of study consisted of 300 mothers of children with special needs in the 2014-2015 academic years in Zanjan province. The instrument of this study was¡ “36 item Short Form Health Survey«. Validity and reliability of Iranian version of this instrument has been assessed and confirmed in previous studies. The data analysis was conducted by SPSS/16.
physical functioning (65. 81±24/12) ¡ social functioning (62. 61±27/01) ¡ pain functioning (62. 12±27/01) ¡ mental health functioning (61. 94±20/14) dimensions of health status of mothers were in more desirable condition than other dimensions such as role limitation due to emotional problems (44. 44±38/49).
The health status of mothers of children with special needs was low. Therefore paying more attention to health status of these group of vulnerable mothers and development of appropriate programs is very essential.

Quality of life (QOL) is important in today''s society. By QOL، the people’s experience of life could be measured. Quality of life of mothers with children with special needs is the focus of this study. If QOL of mothers of children with special needs is low، the children’s mental and physical problems would be high. The aim of this study was to explore the perceptions of mothers of children with special needs about their quality of life. The study was done by interviewing. In this study، mothers of students attending schools in the Zanjan province were participated، and the selection was based on aim of the study، and the data was collected by using semi-structured interviews. Number of participants according to data saturation، was 13 mothers. The data were analyzed using conventional content analysis. In this study، the qualities of life of mothers of children with special needs were classified into eight themes. These themes include; overall dimensions of life satisfaction، psychological، economic، religious، family and friends، social، physical conditions، and life marital satisfaction. The quality of life of mothers of children with special needs (due to the problems of child) has a low level. Therefore، to reduce the negative aspects of at the lives of these mothers، counseling and therapy sessions is highly recommended.