A new tool for measuring the caregiver burden of children with intellectual disability.

A new tool was designed to evaluate the level of burden experienced by caregivers of children with intellectual disability (ID) in the northern Indian context. The instrument has been utilized to collect data from a sample of 100 participants from Rajasthan, India. The tool's overall relevancy was determined to be.98, while its clarity was established to be.99. Factor analysis was conducted for assessing the construct validity of the tool which resulted in nine dimensions. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient resulted in a value of.836. The tool, therefore, can be utilized by researchers to track the level of burden experienced by caregivers of children with ID, and to develop interventions aimed at this population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]