تأثير الإعاقة السمعية للأطفال علي الصحة النفسية للوالدين في قطاع غزة
Date
2005-12-10
Authors
رائد عبد الله سلمان مغاري
Raed Abdallah Salman Moghari
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AL-Quds University
جامعة القدس
جامعة القدس
Abstract
The study was carried out to investigate the effect of hearing impairment of
children on parents mental health in Gaza Strip.
It aims to examine differences in mental health among parents of children
with hearing impairment and its relation with other socio-demographic
variables.
Descriptive analytic cross sectional design used for all parents who have
registered children at the deaf schools. The number of parents who respond
to the study was 97%.
SCL-90-R was used as an instrument to measure the level of parents mental
health. Internal consistency was calculated and its correlation was from
0.596 to 0.967; and validity was calculated by using retest and split half
method.
The main results of the study showed that there are statistically significant
differences between fathers and mothers in general mental health and its
dimensions. The means for fathers and mothers general mental health, for
depression, obsessive compulsive, interpersonal sensitivity, anxiety,
somatization, psychoticism, paranoiac ideation, phobic anxiety and hostility
as follow : for fathers it was (50.6, 8.60, 7.94, 6.33, 4.83, 4.51,3.41 3.91,
3.38, 3.10) respectively; and for mothers (69.2, 11.64, 9.24, 7.98, 7.90, 7.64,
5.19, 4.41, 4.58, 4.66) respectively. Also, the results revealed that there are
no statistically significant differences in general mental health between
parents who have 1-2 children with hearing impairment and those who had 3
and more childrenThere are no statistically significant differences in the general mental health
between fathers according to the sex of the children.
However, the study revealed that there are statistically significant differences
in general mental health toward mothers of female children.
There are no statistically significant differences in the general mental health
between fathers due to the severity of the children hearing impairment.
There are statistically significant differences in the general mental health
toward mothers of children with moderate hearing loss.
The results showed that place of residence did not influence the general
mental health of parents.
Level of education of parents was statistically significant differences for
general mental health of parents.
The study recommended the establishment of a comprehensive awareness
program for parents of children with hearing impairment in order to help
them to deal and cope with their children hearing impairment.
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الصحة النفسية المجتمعية , Community Mental Health