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Objective: The study of the factors and relationships that affect the care burden in the mothers of children with chronic illness and the risk levels of anxiety-depression.Method: The child with chronic illness is designed to identify the care burden in the mothers of children with chronic illness. The universe of the research was formed by mothers who lie in the pediatric unit of a university hospital in Konya due to their child's chronic illness. For this study, the sample size was calculated with the formula N=t2*α2/d2 and N=1,962*13,092/22 and 164 people were found. The data was collected with a question form that contains sociodemographic questions, the HAD scale for anxiety and depression in the hospital and the care burden scale between November 2016-January2017 with the filling of the mothers in the hospital to the volunteers. The data were analyzed by the number, percentage, average, t test in independent groups, variance analysis, Tukey HSD test.The findings: the average age of mothers is 32,54±7,95, the average age of children is 5,70±5,46. HAD scores found that 57.9% of mothers were at anxiety risk and 75.6% were at depression risk. The maternal care burden score was 26,59±12,6 and the care burden was significantly high for those living in the village/city, those who do not work, those who have a low monthly income, those who do not assist in care, those who have a long period of child's illness, those who often go to the hospital.

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