Comparing the Role of Family and Well-Being Centers in Quality of Life of Trainable Mental Retarded

Promotion of quality of life is an essential goal in rehabilitation of people with mental retardation. The purpose of present study is comparing quality of life in trainable mental retarded lived in family and well-being centers. In this cross sectional-comparative study 225 trainable men-tal retarded in Tehran providence selected by random-clustered sample-ling method.One of parents or caregiver answers to Cummins quality of life question-ers in both groups. Non parametric Kruskal-Wllis test showed that quality of life of trainable mental retarded in family signific-antly is higher than well-being centers. The result of this study has been discussed in promotion of qu-ality of life in trainable mental ret-arded lived in family.