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Mezabin Lunat is a MSc Occupational Therapy student at Leeds Beckett University. She is conducting a quantitative study focusing on the correlation between stress, quality of life and occupational participation in health-promoting activities among parents with children with learning disabilities. 

 

Aims & Objectives

  • Explore the correlation between stress, quality of life, and occupational participation in health-promoting activities among parents of children with learning disabilities.
  • Provide greater insight to perspectives and experiences of subjective measures of health and well-being, of parents caring for children with learning disabilities, for the general public, and professions in the educational, health and social disciplines.
  • To offer guidance for future research and areas of interventions.
  • Add to the limited existing quantitative research focusing on this group sample.

 

Eligibility

  • Parent to a child between ages of 12 months to 18 years, formally diagnosed with a learning disability.
  • Resides in the United Kingdom.
  • Actively involved in the child's life.

 

What does participating look like?

  • Read the participant information form and fill in the consent form.
  • Complete the demographic survey.
  • Complete three standardised measures; Parental Stress Scale, Health Promoting Activities Scale, and Short Form Health Survey-this will take no longer than 15 minutes.
  • Read the debrief form.
  • All contributions will be anonymised.

 

For more information, contact Mezabin: M.Lunat3233@student.leedsbeckett.ac.uk

Participate here: https://leedsbeckettmhr.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ebsI2kGI4b8iYo6 

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