A COMPARATIVE RESEARCH ON DISABLED AND NON-DISABLED CHILDREN'S MOTHERS IN TERMS OF DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY PREVALENCE

Objectives: Our research aimed at the depression and anxiety prevalence in the non-disables and disabled children's mothers in the perspective of demographic features. Method: We conducted a cross-sectional comparative research to distinguish variations in the depression and anxiety level of non-disables and disables children's mothers (n=340) with 170 mothers in each study group at Allied Hospital, Faisalabad (September, 2016 to October, 2017). We used HADS (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale) for the depression and anxiety assessment of the subject sample and data analysis was carried out through SPSS and ANOVA. Results: Statistically significant depression and anxiety was observed in the research population (P-value < 0.001). Anxiety was observed in the disable children's mothers (78%). Non-disables children's mothers were (52%). Depression was dominant in the mothers of disabled children than the non-disabled cases that is 46% versus 76%. There was a positive association between depression and anxiety with respect to mother and children age respectively observed as P-value as (< 0.05); whereas, an inverse relation was observed with mother's literacy and children age with a significant P-value of (<.01) including status of the family income. Conclusion: Demands of the disabled children are better understood by mothers with the advancement in the children age which reduces anxiety. Psychologists may get assistance from the research outcomes in order to deal with the cases of disable children's mothers related to depression and anxiety.