Examination of life quality and burnout level of parents with children who have autism spectrum disorder and typically development

The purpose of this study is to examine the quality-of-life and the degrees of burnout of parents whom have children with autism spectrum disorders, to determine the perceived of quality-of-life and from which variables the degree of burnout is affected and to question to see if there is a meterial correlation between the life-ofquality and the degress of burnout. During this research, a group of 300 subjects coupled with mothers and fathers have children with with autism spectrum disorders from the Istanbul branch of Tohum Autism Foundation Special Education School and parents with typically developing children from various Ministry of National Education associated pre-school level institutations as well as elemantry schools. As for data collection purposes, "Information Form" was used to get insights on various demographic information in regards to families and children, "Maslach Burnout Inventory" was also distriubted among the parents in order to measure the different degrees of burnout. Also "World Health Organization Quality of Life-Bref-Tr" was used to determine perceived quality-of-life. In accordance with the findings based on the research, there is a significantly high negative correlation between quality-of-life and the degrees of burnout for given parents. The degree of burnout as its measured was relativty high for the parents have children with autism spectrum disorders compared to control group, parents to typically developing childrens, and on the contrary, life-of-quality for main group were lower compared to control group. Mothers are going through a burnout were higher in terms of numbers compared to fathers and indicated lower quality-of-life. Study findings indicated that quality-oflife and the degree of burnout were actually affected by demographic variables for parents and children.