Awareness on different aspects of Intellectual Disability among caregivers Purty Sunita1, Singh Amool R2 1Assistant Professor, Dept. of Clinical Psychology, PGIBAMS, Raipur (C.G.) 2Professor, Dept. of Clinical Psychology, RINPAS, Ranchi (Jharkhand) Online published on 5 August, 2019. Abstract There are increasing numbers of children being diagnosed with intellectual disability. Social, cultural and educational components in the society are helping to increase awareness about this disability, subsequently to diagnosis, its acceptance by the affected family too. Caregivers need to identify the problem, obtain evaluation and handle the situation in such way that the intellectually disabled child as well as his family could be help to adjust properly in the society, and make optimum use of their abilities. The current study was undertaken to find out the awareness on different aspects of intellectual disability among caregivers having children with intellectual disability. Sample of the study consists of 100 caregivers having children with intellectual disability were, chosen by using purposive sampling technique. GHQ-12 and NIMH, GEM Questionnaire (Reeta Peshawariaetal., 2000) was used to assess the knowledge and awareness about intellectual disability among caregivers, after fulfilling the inclusion criteria. This was a cross sectional study conducted at Ranchi Institute of Neuro-Psychiatry and Allied Sciences (RINPAS) Kanke, Ranchi India. Result showed that less educated caregivers had high misconception regarding all the three areas of awareness than caregivers who were educated up to matriculation or above. Further result showed that the caregivers hailing from rural area had more misconception about etiology and management factors related to intellectual disability. Top Keywords Intellectual Disability, Awareness. Top |