Mental Health among the Parents of Intellectual Disable Children and Normal Children

The Purpose of the Present study was investigating the level of mental health of parents of intellectual disable children and normal children. The total sample consisted of 240 children (120 parents of intellectual disable children and 120 parents of normal children) were selected from Bharuch city of Gujarat. The scale of “Mental Health of Parents Questionnaire” developed by Dr. Kamlesh Sharma was administered level of measure their mental health. Scoring has been done as per manual, further; the data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics mean, SD and t-test. Result was found that, there is no significant difference between mental health of parents of intellectual disable children and normal children. It was also found that, there is no significant difference between mental health of mothers and fathers.