DOI: https://doi.org/10.36347/sjams.2026.v14i01.006

Pages: 38-43

Background: Quality of life is a state associated with a positive perspective of the future and fantastic dimension of life. Hope is something that enables them to overcome the current situation and drives the individuals to act, move and achieve something. Quality of life refers to the level of standard attained in daily life of mother living with mental retardation which is measured using quality of life brief scales considering quality of life in terms of four domains.; physical domain, psychological domain, social relationship, environmental domain. Methods: Qualitative non-experimental approach with crass sectional descriptive survey research design was used for the study to accomplish the objectives. According to WHO quality of life brief scale where use collect data. a sample of 60 mothers was selected by convenient sampling technique. The data collected where analyzed using descriptive inferential statistics. Results: Assessment of levels of quality of life among mothers reveals that, majority of mothers (37) had poor quality of life and moderate (17) and (6) where good quality of life. Maximum physical health score of mother was 3.71 and minimum score was 1.29, the mean and SD was 2.5±0.575.maximum score of social health among mother was 3.67 and minimum score 1.00, the mean and SD was 2.54±0.39.maximum score of psychological health domains was3.33 and minimum score was 1.33, the mean and SD 2.57±0.248.maximum sore of environmental health among mothers was 3.38 and minimum score was 1.63, the mean and SD was 2.62±0.22.finding depicts that , there was a significant association found between marital status and quality of life (x2 =10.229, P< 0.00). Multiple logistic regression analyzes was done to determine quality of life mother mentally challenged children. A significant association was found between quality-of-life mothers and family monthly income (P<0.000) with OR 0.153(CI 95%-1.407 to 1.63). No association found between other variables of quality of lif