Physical and psycho-social benefits of parental involvement in organized physical activities for children with intellectual disabilities in Nairobi: county, Kenya
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Date
2014-07-24
Authors
Wairimu, Mwangi Jane
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Abstract
Involving parents in organized developmental programmes for children with Intellectual
Disability (ID) would provide with information and skills to enable them respond to the needs
of their children in early years. The purpose of this study will be to evaluate the physical and
psycho-social benefits of parental involvement in an organized Physical Activity (PA)
programme for their children with ID of age 4-6 years. The study aims at determining whether
parental involvement in an organized PA programme for their children with ID will have
influence on their physical and psycho-social status. Quasi experimental research design will be
adopted for the study. The study will involve a control and an experimental group in a three -
month organized PA programme. The experimental group will comprise parents who will
participate in organized PA programme jointly with their children with ID of age 4-6 years
under the guidance of a trained coach in Special Olympics young athletes' programme under a
similarly trained coach while parents will not be involved in organized PA in the control group.
The study targets parents and their children with ID learning in the four inclusive Early
Childhood Development (BCD) centres in Nairobi, County. Purposive sampling procedure will
be used to select two ECD centres that have the highest number of leaners with ID. In this case,
the two centres are Little-Rock, Ayani which has a total of 25 learners of age 4-6 years, 50
parents and Christ the King, Embakasi 21 learners and 42 parents respectively making a sample
size of 138(92%) out of the 150 total targeted population. A pre-test will be conducted to
determine validity and reliability of research instrument. Parents' responses will be collected
using a self-administered questionnaire while a modified Young Athlete Motor Checklist
(YAMC) will be used to record the observed performance of the children and an attendance
checklist will be used to collect information on parents' frequency of attendance. Data will then
be coded and organized for analysis using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS)
version 20. Null hypothesis to measure differences in scores on motor skill performance of
children with ID participating in the organized PA will be tested using t-test, One-Way Analysis
of Variance (ANOVA) will be used to measure group mean differences with respect to parental
involvement and gender, age, level of education, marital status as well as parents' ratings of the
motor abilities of their children with ID before and after participating in organized PA. The
Hypotheses will be tested at a 0.05 level of significance. Responses from focus group
discussions on psychosocial benefits will be summarised into themes.
Description
A thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of doctor of philosophy in the department of physical and health education, school of applied human sciences Kenyatta University, October, 2016
Keywords
Physical and psycho-social, Physical activities