Investigation of Physical Activity Enjoying And Quality of Life of Parents Who Have Mentally Disabled Children

Year 2019, Volume: 2 Issue: 2, 54 - 63, 23.12.2019

Ersin İlkiliroğlu Pervin Toptaş Demirci Kazım Eraslan Serpil Kabaklı

https://doi.org/10.33438/ijdshs.651703

Abstract

In this study, it was aimed to investigate physical activity enjoying and quality of life of individuals with mentally disability children.. The study was to create by parents of female (N = 72) and male (N = 35) with mentally disability children in two special education center schools affiliated to the Ministry of National Education in Mersin. World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale-Short Form (WHOQOL-BREF) and Physical Activity Enjoyment Scale (PAES) were used to measure the quality of life of the parents. After the descriptive statistical procedures were applied in the analysis of the obtained data, t test and ANOVA and Mann - Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis tests were used to measure the differences between the variables. Significance was accepted as p <0.05 According to the findings; As a result of the comparison of the likelihood of physical activity of individuals with mentally retarded children according to gender, a high significant difference was found between women and men total score averages for women with negative thinking (p <0.05). In our study, there was a significant correlation (p <0,05, p <0,01) from physical activity likelihood of positive thinking subscale total scores and quality of life. Negative Thinking As a result of the relational analysis of total scores and quality of life levels, only low level of relationship with Psychological Health (p <0.05) was determined. As a result of examining the health-related quality of life levels of individuals with mentally disaibility children according to age, a significant difference was observed between the mean scores of the age groups (p <0.05). In conclusion, it can be said that the enjoyment of physical activity affects parents' health-related quality of life and there is a significant relationship between age and quality of life.

Keywords

Enjoying Physical Activity, Quality of Life, Parent, Disabled

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