Professional Caregiver's View on Mental Health in Parents of Children with Developmental Disabilities: A Nationwide Study of Institutions and Consultation Centers in Japan
Table 2
Descriptive information on communication difficulties with parents.
Group
ID
PDD
PIMD
Physical disabilities
Frequency of difficulties (%)
Increasing
59.1
65.2
45.9
54.1
No change
34.2
22.3
34.4
24.3
Decreasing
2.1
3.6
3.3
0.0
Unknown
4.7
8.9
16.4
21.6
Ratio of difficult parents out of the total (%)
Almost none (<5%)
31.5
28.8
49.2
42.9
Few (5–25%)
53.3
50.5
46.0
45.7
About half
11.7
10.8
4.8
5.7
Many (75–95%)
2.0
6.3
0.0
0.0
Almost all (>95%)
1.0
0.9
0.0
0.0
Unknown
0.5
2.7
0.0
5.7
Who was difficult (%)
Mother
85.3
86.0
80.4
81.8
Father
8.7
9.3
7.1
6.1
Both mother and father
4.3
4.7
7.1
6.1
Others
1.6
0.0
5.4
6.1
Factors observed in the background of difficulties (%)
