Table 1 Demographic Characteristics of Mothers and Children with Disabilities (n = 260)
Variables | Subgroup | Number | Frequency | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mothers | Marital status | Married | 246 | 94.6 |
Divorced | 9 | 3.5 | ||
Widow | 5 | 1.9 | ||
Education | Illiterate | 12 | 4.6 | |
Primary school | 65 | 25 | ||
Middle school | 53 | 20.4 | ||
High school | 92 | 35.4 | ||
University | 38 | 14.3 | ||
Job | Housekeeper | 244 | 93.8 | |
Retired | 1 | 0.4 | ||
Employee | 11 | 4.3 | ||
Freelance | 4 | 1.5 | ||
Economic status | Good | 28 | 10.8 | |
Medium | 175 | 67.3 | ||
Weak | 57 | 21.9 | ||
Children | Gender | Girl | 109 | 41.9 |
Boy | 151 | 58.1 | ||
Severity disability | Light | 51 | 19.6 | |
Medium | 106 | 40.8 | ||
Severe | 86 | 33.1 | ||
Very severe | 17 | 6.5 | ||
Cause of disability | Congenital | 171 | 65.8 | |
Adventitious | 89 | 34.2 | ||
Type of disability | Mental | 53 | 20.4 | |
Physical-motor | 73 | 28.1 | ||
Sense (auditory-speech-visual) | 52 | 20 | ||
Autism | 25 | 9.6 | ||
Multiple disabilities | 57 | 21.9 | ||