Quality of Life of Mothers of Children with Cerebral Palsy Attending in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Eastern UP

Background: Cerebral Palsy is a group of permanent disorders of movement and posture, associated with activity restriction, resulting from non-progressive disturbances that occurred in the developing fetal or infant brain. CP child has a range of care needs, the quality of life (QOL) of the caregiver plays an important role in deciding the successful rehabilitation of the child. The study aims to compare the QOL between of mothers of CP children and normal children and to examine relationship between QOL of mothers and certain socio-demographic variables. Methodology: It was an hospital based case control study design. 125 cases of 2 to 18 years aged CP children attending pediatrics neurology unit and 125 controls from OPD, department of pediatrics were selected. WHOQOL-BREF Questionnaire was used to assess the QOL: Data were entered and analyzed using SPSS software version 28.0. Descriptive statistics findings were expressed as range, mean, SD; Chi-square and student’s t-tests were used to examine relevant statistical significance with p≤0.05 as significance level. Result: The QOL of the mothers of children with CP is lower than that of mothers of normal children in all the four domains and difference is statistically different. The difference is found to be significant (p<0.05) in all domains both families expect for the social domain in nuclear family. Conclusion: The QOL of the mothers of children with CP is worse than that of the mothers of normal children in all four domains of QOL.