title: Psychosocial effect and economic burden on parents of children with locomotor disability.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the social and financial burden of parents of children with locomotor disability.
  
  
  METHODS
  A cross-sectional study was conducted in the Institute for Physically Handicapped (IPH), Delhi, where parents of 100 locomotor disabled children of age group 6 to 15 years were interviewed to estimate the socioeconomic burden of caregiving their children.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The study observed that the parents of the disabled children were severely burdened in terms of financial burden and mental health.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is an urgent need for support activities for such families at a national level in order to curb the huge economic and social burden of care-giving. Counselling should be an integral part of rehabilitation for such families.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi, 110002, India. ananya.ray.laskar@gmail.com
authors.forename: Ananya Ray
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Laskar
authors.forename: Vimal K
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: Dharmendra
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Nandini
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.forename: Megha M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Singh
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000293:Adolescent; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D002648:Child; D017281:Cost of Illness; D003376:Counseling; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D019988:Children with Disabilities / Q000523:psychology*; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
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