The Comparison of Psychological Capital and Parental Quality of Life Between Client's Parents in a Rehabilitation Center and Normal Children's Parents

The current study is aimed to determine the difference in quality of life and psychological capital between clients’ parents in a rehabilitation center and normal children’s parents. A descriptive and causative comparative method used to assess the study aim. The study population were clients’ parents from a rehabilitation center in Ahar. A simple accidental random sampling was used to recruit 60 parents from the rehabilitation center in this study. In addition، we selected 60 parents from normal population through an accidental sampling. Participants in 2 groups were homogeneous regarding age، education and economic status by patient sample. We used the psychological capital and quality of life questionnaires. Data were analyzed by multivariate-analysis of variance and independent two-group uni-variate variance analysis test. The results showed that there was a significant difference in quality of life and psychological capital between clients’ parents in the rehabilitation center and normal children’s’ parents. We can concluded that rehabilitation clients’ parents compared with normal children’s parents have lower psychological capital and quality of life.