Mental Health Status and Influencing Factors Among Family Caregivers of Hearing-impaired Children

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10.2991/assehr.k.211220.321How to use a DOI?

Keywords

hearing-impaired children; family caregiver; GHQ-12; mental health; monthly household income; the first child

Abstract

Objective To investigate the mental health status and influencing factors among family caregivers of hearing-impaired children.

Methods: This survey adopts the questionnaire survey method. Questionnaires were distributed to a total of 200 family caregivers of hearing-impaired children from the Kindergarten and the Care Centre, giving an overall response rate of 56.5% (113 respondents). Meanwhile, factor analysis revealed that GHQ-12[3] was a measure of psychological distress, with a three-factor structure (Psychological Distress, Social and Emotional Dysfunction and Cognitive Disorder)[4].

Results: There are 3 results in the following essay. Some of the result 2 are universal, the other’s are not significant. The tendency of influence is that each increase in the monthly household income of the family caregiver was associated with better mental health; and the older the first child is, the better the mental health status of his family caregivers. As for the result 3, the higher the mean score, the worse the mental health of the family caregiver. The average value above 0.3 indicates poor mental health of the person. It considers that the mental health status of family caregivers is not very ideal.

Conclusion: The study has a great deal of influence to society and even the world, it can not only enables people to focus on the special group (deaf children and their family caregivers), but also allow government to offer some feasible ideas to help relieve the situation, like curing the hearing-impaired children and providing support to family caregivers.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Siqi Ma
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/24
TI  - Mental Health Status and Influencing Factors Among Family Caregivers of Hearing-impaired Children
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1888
EP  - 1893
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.321
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.321
ID  - Ma2021
ER  -