Perceived Social Support and Psychological Well-being among Mothers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Al-Nasiriyah City
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Abstract
Background: Autism spectrum disorder: is a characteristic of chronic deficiencies in the capacity to initiate and retain mutual social contact and social communication and by a number of behavioral and desire behaviors that are limited, repeated an inflexible.
Methodology A descriptive correlational design was performed for the purposes of the current study that are stated earlier to assess the influence of perceived social support on psychological well-being of mothers with Autistic children. This study started from January 15th, 2021 to March 14th 2021. The questionnaire was designed by the researcher to measure the purpose of the study. A convenient sample was selected consecutively from (100) mothers has child with ASD. The data was collected through the use of a questionnaire, which consists of (3) parts: part one: the demographic information for mothers and child, part two: Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, part three: measure of Psychological Wellbeing. The information was analyzed in this study by using statistical package for social science program (IBM SPSS) version 24.0.
Results: It was evident through the results that the observed social support among mothers with autistic children has a significant impact on their mental health at p-value = 0.001, respectively. Also the findings show moderate level of social support and depict that mother of autistic children having moderate to high psychological wellbeing in which 50% having moderate level and 41% having high level.
Conclusions: The study concluded that the effect of perceived social support on the mental health of mothers who have an autistic child has an effective effect on achieving the psychological well-being of the mother.
Recommendations: This study recommended that health care institutions develop supportive plans and open a section concerned with the mental health of the mother who takes care of the child with autism spectrum disorder within the plans and programs of centers specialized in caring for children with autism and to make these centers specialized for the mother and the child.