Depression and Anxiety among Parents of Children with Disabilities: ACase Study from Indian Society & Developing World

Abstract

This research set intended to examine parental depression and anxiety levels across different types of
impairments among children in Indian culture and the developing globe, as well as to identify any correlations
between the two. There were 80 parents in the sample, with 58.12% being women and 41.875% being dads.
The children in the sample ranged in age from 4 to 18, and all of them had one or more disabilities. In order to
choose the sample, a purposeful sampling strategy was used. There were 42 items on the Depression, Anxiety,
and Stress Scale, DASS (Lovibond & Lovibond, 1998).
John Pearson Anxiety and depression were shown to be related using product moment correlation. To compare
parents whose children had various impairments, an independent sample t-test was used. The study's findings
revealed a strong positive association between depression and anxiety (r =.833, p<.01). Parents of impaired
males were found to have significantly lower scores on the depression subscale of the Disability Assessment
Scale (DASS) compared to parents of disabled girls (t(158)=2.301, p<0.01).