Assess the Level of Stress among Parents of Children with Autism at Selected Autism Schools of Vadodara with a View to Give Need Based Education

Abstract

Introduction: Children with a Autism spectrum disorders have impairment in the area of communication and social interaction and often display repetitive and non often display. Their parents having stress a to manage their children to education and future purpose. This study has assessed the stress level in parents and manage their stress with coping mechanism. Aims and Objective: 1) To assess the level of stress among parents of children with autism.2) To find association between level of stress and selected demographic variables. Methods: The data for main study collection was 30 Parents. Description of the tools refers to the explanation of the content of the tool. The researcher lists the number of items and the scoring for each item in the tool. The tool used for the present study is Parenting stress index - Scale. Descriptive and inferential statistics were applied to analyses the data by using SPSS-20 software. We use purposive sampling technique. Results: The majority of the parents having a moderate stress (83.3%), and severe stress (10%) and mild stress (6.66%) and nonstress level (0.0%). the stress level analysis showed that stress in parents (R=0.321, p=0.00) at significance of 0.05 level present. Conclusion: The present study concluded that there is a stress level of parents among children having a moderate stress and there is a no any association between the level of stress and selected demographic variable.