Thesis title: Role performance of mothers of children with disability: an explorative study

Abstract

Background: Role performance is an important part of a human being. When mothers have children with any disability, their works, roles, and responsibilities being more. During playing their roles they face many challenges, barriers. They do a lot of works to manage and balance their family. Objective: The aim of this research is to explore mothers of CWD different types of role performance. And find out how the mothers balance their everyday occupational roles. Methodology: This study was conducted by using qualitative content analysis approach. Purposive sampling was used for selecting participants. Data was collected by using face to face interview with a self-developed interview question. Result: The study shows that mothers of CWD can engage only in fundamental self-care activities that must be required to do. They can engage in paid productive activities which assists them in taking extra care and help to give more times of their children, and can also engage in almost all of unpaid activities. They can only engage in those leisure activities that can do with their children. And by using some strategies mothers are balancing their occupational roles and they can reduce the difficulties. Conclusion: Mothers have a lot of roles and responsibilities in their family. But when mothers have CWD, their responsibility being more than the typical mothers. This study is conducted to explore these mothers’ everyday occupation as well as their occupational role balance. OTs can give advice mothers as well as education on how to keep a healthy work-life balance. Key word: CWD, Mothers’ everyday occupation, Role performance.