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      Attitudes of the mildly mentally retarded children's parents toward their children's handicap: Dammam – Saudi Arabia

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      , F.F.CM, (K.F.U.), , F.F.CM, (K.F.U.)
      Journal of Family & Community Medicine
      Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd
      Attitudes, Parents, Children and Mental Retardation

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          The objectives of this case-control study was to identify the attitudes of parents of mentally retarded children towards the illness of their children. Sixty-nine parents ofrniltlly mentally retarded male children (MR group) and a similar number of matched parents of normal male children (Control Group) were interviewed using a questionnaire.

          The parents of the MR group had feelings of guilt and self-blame which was significantly higher in mothers than in fathers. Feeling of rejection and inferiority were reported by the parents with no significant difference between fathers and mothers. All of the rates, however, were found to be less than those reported /tom western societies. Failure of families to investigate causes of mental retardation was found in more than a quarter of all the study groups. Parents of the MR group asked for more services to be provided by the appropriate governmental agencies.

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              Aetiology of mild mental retardation.

              A clinical and family study was carried out in 169 children attending schools for the mildly mentally retarded in Southampton to assess the prevalence of recognised medical risk factors; 71 children (42%) had such risk factors. These were prenatal in 22, perinatal in 41, and postnatal in eight. Risk factors of possible, but less certain, significance were found in a further 63 children (37%). In 86 families (51%) there was a history of serious educational problems in both parents. The prevalence of both types of risk factor was higher in the children whose parents had no educational problems. There were, however, 25 children (15%) whose parents had no history of educational problems and in whom medical risk factors were either absent or minimal.
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                Journal
                J Family Community Med
                J Family Community Med
                JFCM
                Journal of Family & Community Medicine
                Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd (India )
                1319-1683
                2229-340X
                Jan-Dec 1994
                : 1
                : 1
                : 55-60
                Affiliations
                [1] Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, King Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
                Author notes
                Correspondence to: Dr. Kasim AI-Dawood, P.O. Box 2290, Al-Khobar 3 1952, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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                JFCM-1-55
                3437183
                23008536
                f8c401ac-cff8-464c-9e60-deb9b964d8b9
                Copyright: © Journal of Family and Community Medicine

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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