The Comparative Study of Chronic Sorrow and Feelings of Entrapment in Mothers that have Children with Intellectual Disabilities and without

Abstract

Aim and Background: The attendances a child with intellectual disabilities in each family impress their structure and mental health, particularly mothers. Thus, the aim of this study was to compare the effect of chronic sorrow and feelings of entrapment in mothers that have children with intellectual disabilities and without, in Kashan 2017-2018. Methods and Materials: This study was a causal-comparative study, and its statistical population include all mothers of disabled and non-disabled children, in exceptional and normal schools in Kashan. The sample consist 66 mothers (31 mothers of children with intellectual disabilities and 35 mothers of non-disabled children), which were selected mothers of children with intellectual disability, by available sampling method and mothers of non-disabled children by multistage random sampling. To measure information, were used Kendall's Chronic Sorrow Instrument (KCSI) and entrapment questionnaire. The method of analysis was descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (multivariate analysis of variance). Findings: The results showed the significance difference between the feeling of chronic sorrow and feelings of entrapment in mothers of children with intellectual disabilities and without, in Kashan (p=.0001) and mothers of children with intellectual disabilities have chronicle chronic sorrow and feelings of entrapment more. Conclusions: Regarding the negative effects of two chronic sorrow and feelings of entrapment in mental health, it is necessary to provide psychological services to mothers of mentally disabled children.

Keywords

• chronic sorrow
• feelings of entrapment
• intellectual disability