Psychological well being and self efficacy among primary caregivers of children with intellectual disability attending OPD in a tertiary hospital

Intellectual disability is a global public health concern. Intellectual disability refers to significant reduced ability to learn new skills understand new or complex information with reduced ability cope independently. The Primary caregivers of intellectual disabled individual often experiences poor well being,caregiver burden, higher amount of stress as intellectual disability individual needs greater amount of care and service. Psychological well-being is influenced by combination of various factors including caregiver education, lack of sleep, coping strategies, marital status of the caregivers. Self efficacy is determined how people feel, think and motivate themselves. Materials and Methods: It is a cross sectional study. 60 primary caregivers of children with intellectual disability were taken for the study for duration of 3 months. The study utilizes self structured socio demographic and clinical Performa, Psychological well being index and General self efficacy scale. Statistical analysis was done with SPSS software. Results: The result of the study revealed that 55% had severe psychological distress, 26.7% had positive well being and 18.3% had moderate psychological distress measured by Psychological General well being index tool. Majority of the participants i.e. 55% (f==33) had lower self efficacy and 45% had higher self efficacy measured by Generalised Self Efficacy. There is significant positive correlation between psychological well being and self efficacy among the care givers of children with intellectual disability (r=.261*, p