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IMPACT OF CHRONIC CHILDHOOD ILLNESS ON FAMILY

Arya Chandran

Abstract


Being ill is a part of childhood and caring of the sick child is a part of parenting. Everyday millions of sick children seek health care from hospital. Chronic illness is those which affect the growth and development of the young child. This study aims to find out the impact of chronic childhood illness on family mainly over parents and healthy siblings. Qualitative research approach with purposive sampling technique is used and 50 parents of chronically ill child in chosen from the pediatric ward of Kamala Nehru memorial hospital, Allahabad. Demographic data of the ill child and healthy sibling were collected. Structured questionnaire, stress assessment scale, illness severity assessment scale and family domain scale were used. Pearson's Correlation is used to assess the impact of childhood illness on family and sibling. The results concluded that there a significant correlation between the illness severity of the child on family and sibling at 0.01 level and 0.05 level respectively.
Keywords: Illness; severity; impact; family; sibling; correlation

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijpn.v3i2.284

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