The Quality of Life and Burden Among Caregivers of Children with Autism and Caregiver of Children Without Disability

The aim of the research was to study the Quality of Life and Burden among caregivers of children with Autism and caregivers of children without disability. To see the same a comparative study was undertaken using Parental Stress Scale given by Berry and Jones, a self-report measure which was to study caregiver burden and WHOQOL-BREF to study the Quality of Life among the caregivers. The results show that caregivers of children with autism experience higher level of burden and lower level of quality of life on all the four domains of quality of life as compared to the caregivers of children without disability. These findings indicate that different effect as a consequence of different childhood conditions and also the need to provide adequate parental support when providing intervention to their children with disabilities.