Siblings Attitudes Towards Persons with Severe/Profound and Multiple Disabilities in Turkey

AbstractAll family members are affected when he joined the family, an individual with severe/profound and multiple disabilities. Duties and responsibilities of family members increase. As well normal siblings in the family is affected from this situation. Therefore, normal siblings’ attitudes expected to be different about siblings who have sever/profound and multiple disabilities. The purpose of this study, normal siblings who have severe/profound and Multiple Disabilities (PMD) brother and sister to determine the attitude toward the siblings. This research is a descriptive study. 105 normal siblings who is living in Turkey (province of Bolu, Istanbul, Samsun, Düzce, Sakarya, Trabzon, Çanakkale, Malatya) participated in this research. Participant have brother and sister with severe/profound and multiple disabilities. “Siblings Handicapped Attitude Scale” who developed by Küçüker was used in this study(1997). Data analysis, t-test, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used. Results were interpreted at the level of p = 0.05. As a result of this research, normal siblings’ attitudes toward siblings who have severe/profound and multiple disabilities were found to be generally as positive attitudes. It has been identified that attitudes are not variable according to sex, age and level of education. Results of the study support the findings of other studies