Perception about back care classes among the mother’s of cerebral palsy children

Abstract

Purpose: To find out the Cerebral Palsy mothers perception about the back care classes. Objectives: To investigate the socio demographic information, to find out the mothers understanding from the back care classes, value of the back care classes for mothers with CP and their mothers perspective and gather suggestions from mothers about the classes. Methodology: The qualitative study was used in this study. Study was conducted by using qualitative method and analysis was done in content analysis. Participants were selected by using purposive sampling. Data was collected using face to face in depth interview with a questionnaire. Total number of sample was 07. Results: The study was found that mothers of children with cerebral palsy understand all the information clearly and satisfactorily. Mothers of children with cerebral palsy addressed that the back care class enhance their knowledge about back problem and its management. Mothers thought that the back care class were very important to take care of their health and to prevent back pain. They will be utilizing their learning from the classes at their home which will be helpful for them. Mothers thought that demonstration of the back care technique by using video clip is better to make information easy to see and remember. Mothers preferred to get booklet on back care technique, which they might be use at home to show the techniques and related information to the other family members. A video clip can be used for providing information instead of only flashcard of picture about caring of back. Overall, the back care classes were very important for mothers of children with cerebral palsy and they learned many techniques to prevent back pain and maintain healthier life. Keywords: Cerebral Palsy, Perception, Back care class.