Depression and anxiety among the parents of mentally disabled children in Ranchi district

Abstract

The study was designed to investigate the impact of children's mental disability on parents' depression and anxiety for this purpose a purposive sampling method was used and a total of 50 parents from Ranchi district were selected between the age group of 35 to 55. The objective of this article is to know the impact of children’s disability on parents' mental health. Sinha anxiety scale and Beck depression inventory were administered the result shows that parents of mentally disabled children have a high depression and high anxiety.