ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF THE CHILDREN RESIDING IN THE CHILD CARE INSTITUTION’S LOCATED IN NORTH WEST DISTRICTS OF TAMIL NADU
Abstract
When we look at the global scenario all child care institutions are widely recognized as an integral part of child welfare programs in order to help the children in need and in distress. In fact, India has long tradition of looking after such category of children through the Child care institutions, which were governed by Juvenile Justice Act (care and protection) 2015.
The main aim of the study is to assess the quality of life of children residing in Child care institutions located in North west region of Tamil Nadu, India.
The basic objectives are to study Socio demographic, Service provided in Child care institutions, Peer group influence in Child care institutions, Alternative care in Child care institutions, Perception of Children towards teachers and the quality of life.
An interview schedule, as a part of tool, was developed and the pilot study was conducted in Udhagamandalam and Krishnagiri Districts. Nearly 30 to 40 respondents were interviewed during the pilot study and five questions have been corrected after the completion of the pilot study. After that a full-fledged interview schedule was prepared and data were collected from 415 respondents from the different Child care institutions like government Child care institutions, Funded Child care institutions and Non-funded Child care institutions located in the western region of Tamil Nadu.
To Assess the quality of life a “standardized Scale” Published by the World Health Organization was used to make analysis in 5 domains as given below.
- Physical domain
- Psychological domain
- Social relationship domain.
- Environmental domain
- Total Quality of life domain.
After the analysis of the statistics and data, it is found that Social relationship domain and total quality of life are significant at P=0.05 level in this study. The social work intervention have to be enhanced the quality of life from low level to moderate level and moderate level to high level for the welfare of the children in the homes.
Therefore most of these Child care institutions were moderately satisfactory indicating the necessity for improvement especially in some funded Child care institutions.
