The Burden Caregiver of Disable Children in Chenderong Balai, Langkap and Tapah

Abstract

Caregiver is a person who gives help and protection to someone such as child, an old person, or someone who is sick. Caregiver burden means a high level of stress that may be experienced by people who were caring for another person with some kind of illness. The objectives of this study were to investigate whether the level of burden was affected by the caregiver’s gender, to identify the type of children disabilities that affect the level of burden, to identify the difference in child abilities and the level of burden. The reference population was caregiver of disabled children in Perak and our target sample was the caregiver of disabled children in Langkap, Chenderong Balai and Tapah Perak. Cross-sectional research was used for our study and the sampling technique used was stratified sampling. A questionnaire was used to collect our data. Kruskal-Wallis test was used to achieve our hypothesis on income and caregiver’s level of burden and the type of children disabilities that affect the caregiver’s level of burden while Mann-Whitney U test was used to investigate whether the caregiver’s level of burden was affected by the difference in caregiver’s gender and the difference on child abilities. The result showed that there were not statistically significant different on median level of burden between the male and female, the income of caregiver and child who has ability and child who does not have ability. The conclusion showed that the median level of burden on income categories were all the same while the median level of burden on type of disabilities was greater for other disabilities and the median of level of burden on child who does not have ability was greater than child who has ability.

Keywords: Burden Caregiver, children, disable, Kruskal-Wallis, Mann-Whitney U test