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The Caregiver Of The Child With Cerebral Palsy: The Unnoticed Victim, Taylor Tusinski
The Caregiver Of The Child With Cerebral Palsy: The Unnoticed Victim, Taylor Tusinski
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The purpose of this study was to better understand the overall quality of life (QoL) in the primary caregiver who provides care to the child or adolescent, aged 0-17 with mild, moderate, or severe Cerebral Palsy (CP). This study aligned with a nonexperimental or observational design and examined the severity level of CP and the QoL in the mother and/or father.
For research question 1, regression results indicated that the overall model did not significantly predict the mother’s and father’s QoL [R2 = .000, R2 adj = -.012, F(1,80) = .003, p = .957]. Regression results indicated that …