QUALITY OF LIFE, CAREGIVER BURDEN AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS WITH REGARD TO PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH INHERITED METABOLIC DISORDERS

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Background: Parents of children with inherited metabolic diseases have many difficulties compared to parents of healthy children. Aim: The aim of this study is to determine quality of life, caregiver burden and associated factors with regard to parents of children with inherited metabolic disorders. Method: The par-ents of 121 children diagnosed with inherited metabolic disorders who were admitted to the pediatric meta-bolic clinics of the university hospital constituted the sample of the study. The sample of the study was determined by Power Analysis. Data were collected using Quality-of-Life Scale and Caregiver Burden Inventory. Data were statistically analyzed using IBM SPSS V23. Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Shapiro-Wilk tests were used to evaluate the suitability of the data for normal distribution. One-way MANOVA was used to compare the scores obtained from the scale in terms of demographic characteristics and significance levels for the differences between any pair of means were evaluated using the Duncan's Multiple Range Test. The significance level of mean ± sd for the quantitative data obtained in the analysis was considered as p