Depression Anxiety and Stress of Caregivers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder at Special Schools in Chennai

Abstract

The present impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on families of Autism children’s, Caregivers play a major role and caring for the individual of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) children’s in ideal circumstances, and it can be a stressful and high degree of disturbance in life. The purpose of this empirical research paper is to examine the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress of caregivers of autism children at three special schools in Chennai. The objectives of the paper are to describe the socio-demographic characteristic of the respondents to measure the level of depression, anxiety, andstress among respondents and to find out the statistically significant relationship/differencebetween selected socio-demographic Characteristic of Respondents and dependent variables. A descriptive research design has adopted. The universe of the paper consists of caregivers of autism children who are studying at three special schools in Chennai, there are about 150 Special children are studying in three special schools, out of these, 60 caregivers of autism children were selected as a sample by adopting simple random sampling using lottery method and a semi-structured questionnaire was prepared in order to understand the socio-demographic characteristic of the respondents along with DASS-42 items was used. The questionnaire method was adopted. The collected data has been analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science version 20. The study results are revealed in Section VI of Results.