Alisha Rijal Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Lived-in experienced; Mothers; Mentally retarded children; Special schools
Assistant Professor in Mental Health,NPI, Bharatpur, Chitwan, Nepal
Alisha Rijal is Assistant Professor in Mental Health at Nursing Department of Kantipur Academy of Health Sciences, Purvanchal University where she teaches mental health nursing students at both BSc level and BN level. She also teaches Biostatistics to the BN level students of Innovative Nursing College under same university. She is academic teacher for the BN first year level. She has recently published her article "Lived-in Experience on mothers with mentally retarded children of selected schools", Bangalore, India in international journal.
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Author(s): Alisha Rijal
A qualitative design was used to explore and describe the experiences of caring for a mentally retarded child at home as lived by their mothers in Bangalore. Phenomenological interviews were conducted with a purposefully selected sample of fifteen mothers parenting a child with MR who attended a Special School were interviewed. The lived experiences of mothers were analyzed thematically by using Colazzi’s analysis. Six major themes were found in the data. The subthemes identified were: Before: Denial and difficult to accept child condition, After: Acceptance about child condition, Present: Fear about future, Life change: Vague physical symptoms, Life change: Change in daily activities, Husband relation: Supportive, In-laws relation: Neglected support, ... view moreĀ»