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Psychosocial effect and economic burden on parents of children with locomotor disability
Ananya Ray Laskar1, Vimal K Gupta, Dharmendra Kumar
1Department of Community Medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi, 110002, India. ananya.ray.laskar@gmail.com
Objective:
To assess the social and financial burden of parents of children with locomotor disability.
Methods:
A cross-sectional study was conducted in the Institute for Physically Handicapped (IPH), Delhi, where parents of 100 locomotor disabled children of age group 6 to 15 years were interviewed to estimate the socioeconomic burden of caregiving their children.
Results:
The study observed that the parents of the disabled children were severely burdened in terms of financial burden and mental health.
Conclusions:
There is an urgent need for support activities for such families at a national level in order to curb the huge economic and social burden of care-giving. Counselling should be an integral part of rehabilitation for such families.
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