A Qualitative Study of Psychosocial Problems among Parents of Children with Cerebral Palsy Attending Two Tertiary Care Hospitals in Western India

Table 1

Sociodemographic characteristics of the study participants and the affected ones.

Item	Rural hospital	Urban hospital
Study participant
Number of participants	7	6
Mean age in years	35.85	35
Mean years of schooling	10.14	6
Occupation
Housewives	6	5
Working	1	1
Type of family
Joint	3	4
Nuclear	4	2
Mean number of family members	6	6.17
Mean number of children	1.86	1.5
Children of the participants
Mean age of the children in years	4.57	6.83
Sex
Male	6	5
Female	1	1
Mean age of the child in years at the time of diagnosis	1.46	0.71 (around 9 months)
Mean duration of illness in years	3.07	6.13