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KMID : 0377220000250010093
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Medical Journal of Chosun Univercity
2000 Volume.25 No. 1 p.93 ~ p.103
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Burden and Social Support of Mothers with Handicapped Children of Preschool Age
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Yang Kyung-Mi
Paik Young-Choo
Oh Hyun-Ei
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Abstract
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Background and Objective : The purpose of this study is to identify the level of burden and social support of mothers who have handicapped children of preschool age, and is to determine whether providing social support is an effective strategy to relieve the burden of those mothers.
Materials and Method : From August 17, to September 28, 1999, the data was collected from 83 mothers caring handicapped children of preschool age, who are being treated and educated at two welfare centers for the handicapped, two early training and treating centers for them in Kwangju, and one center in Seoul. Two instruments used in this study were the burden scale developed by Suh and Oh, and the Personal Resource Questionnaire(PRQ, Part Ⅱ) developed by Brandt and Weinert. The data was analyzed with t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe’s test, Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient, and Stepwise Multiple Regression analysis.
Results : 1. The correlation between the burden and the social support was statistically significant. 2. Sorts of handicap of children was the most important predictor to burden of mothers caring handicapped children of preschool age(R2=.20). In addition to, this social support and brother’s precedence accounted for 32% of burden of those mothers.
Conclusion : There was significant negative correlation between social support and burden.
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KEYWORD
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Burden, Social support, The Hadnicapped Children
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