Abstract
Tuberculosis is haunting mankind since ages and still remains a panglobal phenomenon affecting people from every walk of life. The impact on children in the family was studied in respect of 1) social, economic and demographic characteristics of the parents (who were patients), 2) the child care functions of mothers who were patients and 3) effect on children’s education.
In all. 575 children of 300 tuberculous parents were studied. The socio-economic and demographic characteristics revealed that majority of the patients suffering from tuberculosis were from economically productive age group of 31-40 years and that gender of the suffering parents had no significant impact on the child’s discontinuity of education and school dropout rate. The child caring on the part of mothers fell significantly; children who dropped out of school were significantly higher in families with more than 4 members. The school dropout children were forced to do labour to support and feed their families – adding to the menace of child labour.
Keyword: Parental tuberculosis, Socio-economic impact, Tuberculosis affecting child care, School dropout, Child labour.
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Corresponding Author
Dr Bharat Bhushan
Professor and Head, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Government Medical College, Patiala
Address – 64, Bank Colony, Patiala – 147001, Punjab, India
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DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v7i1.182
