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Abstract
Background: Children with Cerebral Palsy have difficulties in functional mobility
due to abnormal tone, posture, balance, and coordination. That‟s why while
children continue to use mobility aids then physical, social and overall
environment act as either barrier or facilitator to use mobility aids. Then, mother
faces so many difficulties and opportunities. That‟s why investigator run a study to
explore mother‟s perception for using mobility aids for their children. In
Bangladesh, still now there is no research conducted on exploring mother‟s
perception toward using functional mobility aids for their children with cerebral
palsy.
Objectives of the study: The objectives of the study were to explore difficulties
of the mothers for their children on physical mobility by using functional mobility
aids in their physical environment, exploring difficulties of the mothers for their
children on social activity by using functional mobility aids in their social
environment, and exploring status of the mothers for their children on attending
cultural program by using functional mobility aids.
Methodology: The study was a qualitative content analysis under qualitative
design. The study was conducted in the William & Marie Taylor School of Center
for the Rehabilitation of the Paralyzed (CRP) at Savar, and Proyash, Savar
cantonment. There were eight mothers participated in this research. Semi structure
questioners with face to face interview and the investigator used convenient
sampling for data collection from the mothers of child with CP.
Result and Discussion: From the finding of the research, it was seen that mothers
of child with cerebral palsy have tendency to go to school by using mobility aids
regularly though they face transport and behavioral difficulties for using mobility
aids. Mothers face no difficulties to engage their child with other children by
using mobility aids. But in society mother faces unlike, sympathetic,
discriminative and uncomfortable attitude from the neighbors for using mobility
aids. For this reason they don‟t use mobility aids to go fair. Mother‟s don‟t go to
relative‟s house by using mobility aids due to transport difficulties. Most of the
mothers go outside and encourage their child to participate in play by and they feel
satisfied for using mobility aids. They ensure participation in the cultural program
by using mobility aids for their school going children.
Conclusion: Mothers perception toward using mobility aids show different
problems in physical, social, and cultural aspects. They also demonstrate the
importance of taking children‟s different developmental stages and unique
personal experiences into consideration in understanding the influence of mobility
aids for children with cerebral palsy. |
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