Abstract:

Caring for a disabled child can make their daily parenting duties, such as feeding, toilet training and getting them to sleep, it will be more challenging. People who are taking care of a mentally disabled child will undergo a major part of stress in their life and so their sleep pattern will get disturbed. However, sleep complaints have been under-treated by caregivers of all ill family members. Calisthenic exercise is a very simple exercise that helps caregivers to improve sleep quality. The research approach was quantitative research and the research design adopted was quasi-experimental control group design. The caregivers of mentally disabled children were selected by purposive sampling technique. The sample size for the study was 80. It is divided into two groups, that is 40 were in the study group and 40 were in the control group. Pittsburgh sleep quality index was used to assess the sleep quality. Confidentiality was maintained throughout the research. The data was analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. The result revealed that during the post-test 25 (62.5%) had good sleep quality The p-value of 0.001 is less than 0.01 and is highly significant at the 1% level hence it is concluded that there is a high significant difference between the mean sleep quality scores at post-test level in control and study groups. The mean scores of the post-test are lesser than the mean score of pre-test and it is concluded that calisthenic exercise is effective in increasing sleep quality in the study group.

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