A Study to Assess the Knowledge Regarding Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Among Mothers of School Going Children in Selected Urban Community at Jaipur, With A View to Develop an Informational Booklet

Abstract

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION: Normal children are healthy, happy and well adjusted. This adjustment is developed by providing basic emotional needs along with physical and physiological needs for their mental well-being. The emotional needs are considered as emotional food for healthy behaviour. The children are dependent on their parents, so parents are responsible for fulfilment of the emotional needs. Every child should have tender loving care and sense of security about protection from parents and family members. They should have opportunity for development of independence, trust, confidence and self-respect. There should be adequate social and emotional interaction with discipline. The child should get scope for self-expression and recreation. Parent should be aware of about achievements of their children and express acceptance of positive attitude with in the social norms. The causes for all attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children are due to parent’s negligence poor supervision or poor attention, family conflict and maladjustment e.g. too strict parents, rejection, sibling rivalry, unconscious anger and defiance in the child, insecurity, conflict or hostility, aggression, neurotic attitudes of the mothers.

OBJECTIVES:-

1. To assess the knowledge regarding attention deficit hyperactivity disorder among mothers. 2. To find out the association between knowledge of mothers of school going children regarding attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and selected demographic variables.
2. To develop an information booklet regarding attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

METHODS: The descriptive survey approach was used to assess the knowledge on ADHD of School going mothers living in Urban Community Jaipur. The convenient sampling technique was used to collect data from the selected samples. A self-structured questionnaire was used as an instrument for assessing the knowledge on ADHD. The reliability of the self-structured questionnaire was 0.91. Since the score is positive; the tool was found to be higher statistically reliable for the present study.

RESULTS: The data showed that mean score of knowledge was 14.24 .This shows that mothers have Moderate knowledge regarding ADHD. Some socio demographic variables viz: monthly income of family and type of family, the obtained chi square value is less than tabulated value at 0.05 level of significance with their respective degree of freedom. So the association between level of knowledge regarding ADHD of school going children and selected socio demographic variables viz: monthly income of family and type of family is not significant but by chance. Hence researcher fails to reject the null hypothesis. Whereas In case of finding association between level of knowledge regarding ADHD of school going children and selected socio demographic variables viz: Age ( in years), educational of mother , job nature of mother , number of children in family , the obtained chi square value is more than tabulated value at 0.05 level of significance with their respective degree of freedom.

CONCLUSION: The obtained data is analysed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. Chi-square test tested at 0.05 level of significance to find out the association of ADHD and selected demographic variables.

KEY WORDS: ADHD, Knowledge, management, Mothers.