ABSTRACT

Intellectual disability (DI) is the second highest number of disabilities in

children in Indonesia which is characterized by intellectual intelligence <70 that
impacts the fulfillment of basic needs such as self-care. The child's self-care ability
is determined by the parent's behavior in developing a child's self-care behavior.
The ability of parent-child interpersonal relationships through a comprehensive
approach will affect the child's ability in self-care. This relationship occurs in the
form of parenting patterns that are complex activities to influence children's
behavior. The purpose of the study was to analyze the relationship of parenting
parenting with child self-care abilities in DI Special School (SLB) Bandung.
The design of this research is descriptive analytic with cross sectional
approach. The population of the study were the parents of DI students as much as
163. Subjects of the study amounted to 116 parents were taken with proportional
stratified random sampling technique. Parenting was measured by a questionnaire
based on Maccoby theory and self-care measured by the Pediatric Evaluation of
Disability Inventory (PEDI) instrument. The data were analyzed by univariate
(frequency distribution) and bivariate with eta correlation analysis and continued
by hypothesis test using F test. Anova test was used to identify the type of parenting
most related to self care.
The results showed that 116 children score of self care ability was lowest
reached 67.1 and highest reached 100. Parenting parenting showed 71 respondents
(61.2%) had authoritative parenting pattern. There is a significant correlation
between parenting pattern with self care ability (F count 4,461> F table 2,686) with
strong relation strength (correlation coefficient eta 0,646). Authoritative parenting,
permissif and authoritarian parenting are the most related parenting patterns of
self-care versus neglectful parenting. The applicable nursing implications of this
outcome are to plan for support programs for parents in helping to develop a
pattern of care with high control and warmth so as to achieve good child self-care
abilities.
Keywords: children, intellectual disability, parenting, self care,