Investigation of Factors Affecting Children's Attitudes Towards Peers With Disability

Pamukkale University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Disability Physical

Treatments: Other: implementation of CATCH scale

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04031352

17531

Details and patient eligibility

About

Children with disabilities can be exposed to stigma and discrimination because of poor attitudes. The role of peer is crucial for development of disabled children.

The aim of the study was to investigate the attitudes of children towards their peers with disabilities and to identify factors associated with them.

1305 elementary school students included to the study. The students participating in the study, 48.9% (534) were female, 51.1% (558) were male. The Chedoke-McMaster Attitudes towards Children with Handicaps (CATCH) scale was used to investigate the children's attitudes.

Full description

• Being important in terms of epidemiological investigation.
• Giving new results from society with different cultural and national characteristics.
• Investigating the three components of the CATCH.

Enrollment: 1,305 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 11 to 15 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Inclusion criteria were being a student of elementary school, being aged between 11-15 years and being volunteer.

Exclusion criteria

• Students who had a congenital or acquired disability or a handicap and who did not complete the scale were excluded.