Development of questionairre of parents of chiildren wiith cerebral palsy complience on physiotherapy home program.

This study was planned to conduct validity and reliability analysis of Questionairre of Parents of Children wiıth Cerebral Palsy Complience on Physiotherapy Home Program, which was developed to determine compliance with home program of parents of children with Cerebral Palsy (CP). For this purpose, the stages of development of this scale were completed and applied to 155 parents of children with CP between the ages of 2 and 18 years. Demographic and clinical information of the children and parental information were obtained. The Pediatric Data Collection Instrument (PODCI), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-I and STAI-II), Beck Depression Inventory, and WeeFIM were administered to assess parents' anxiety and depression and the quality of life of their children. The developed scale was found to be valid and reliable (p<0.05). Scale was structured as a 28-item long form and a 9-item short form. According to general results from scale, %52.9 of parents applied home program on a regular basis and found significant relationship with functional level of CP (p<0.05). It was determined that physiotherapists were directly related to adaptation to the home program (p<0.01). There was a significant relationship between use of assistive equipments and compliance with home program (p<0.01). Although there was a significant difference between the age of the child and the adaptation to home program (p <0.05), there was no relation between adaptation to the home program and family characteristics and other factors related to child (p>0.05). In conclusion, it has been determined that environmentaol factors, personal factors, therapists, CP types and severity, affects adherence to home program and each affecting factor must be solved differently in each parent and child in order to improve compliance.