Mental retardation is a condition of abnormal intelligence or under the average during the develo... more Mental retardation is a condition of abnormal intelligence or under the average during the development period, from a new born baby until childhood. Family’s care and responsibility for caring a mental retardation child will take a lot of time, energy, and cost of make a burden for them so that good coping is needed to solve the problem, to adjust to changes, and to respond to menacing situation. The objective of the research was to find out and identify caregivers’ burden and coping in taking care of 73 mental retardation school-aged children at SLB Negeri, Binjai. The samples were 42 caregivers, taken by using accidental sampling technique. The research instrument was questionnaires. The result of the research showed that 38 respondents (90.5%) had mild burden, and 26 respondents (61.9%) used emotional focus coping in solving the problems. It is recommended that the next researchers find the correlation caregivers’ burden and coping and change caregivers’ burden measurement from o...
Mental retardation is a condition of abnormal intelligence or under the average during the develo... more Mental retardation is a condition of abnormal intelligence or under the average during the development period, from a new born baby until childhood. Family’s care and responsibility for caring a mental retardation child will take a lot of time, energy, and cost of make a burden for them so that good coping is needed to solve the problem, to adjust to changes, and to respond to menacing situation. The objective of the research was to find out and identify caregivers’ burden and coping in taking care of 73 mental retardation school-aged children at SLB Negeri, Binjai. The samples were 42 caregivers, taken by using accidental sampling technique. The research instrument was questionnaires. The result of the research showed that 38 respondents (90.5%) had mild burden, and 26 respondents (61.9%) used emotional focus coping in solving the problems. It is recommended that the next researchers find the correlation caregivers’ burden and coping and change caregivers’ burden measurement from o...
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