Volume : VIII, Issue : IV, April - 2019

Quality of life among physically disabled persons after assistive device use

Sesil Mariya, Catherin Nisha

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Introduction: The quality of life among individuals with physical disabilities has greatly improved during the past two decades as a result of well-planned intervention programmes. Assistive devices can enable them to carryout daily activities and participate actively and productively in social life. This study attempts to assess the quality of life among physically disabled persons at six months of assistive device use. Materials and Methods: This study was conducted in South India among 57 disabled persons at six months of assistive device use. WHO BREF questionnaire was used to assess quality of life among the study participants after taking written informed consent. Results: The mean age of the respondents was 23.77±17.4 years. Minimum and maximum age of the respondents was 2 and 70 years respectively. The mean of standard living index was 22.72+ 5.7. The quality of life in the social domain among the respondents were relatively poor on compå with other domains. The Quality of Life under the social domain among the respondents in the age group of >60 years showed significant improvement while compå with respondents of <19 years. Significant positive correlation was present between environmental domain and Standard of living index. Conclusion: QOL was found to be poor among the respondents in social domain. Efforts need to be directed towards empowering them with knowledge on various social protection schemes and health education programmes which plays a facilitative role so that it can be accessed easily without difficulty.

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QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG PHYSICALLY DISABLED PERSONS AFTER ASSISTIVE DEVICE USE, Sesil Mariya, Catherin Nisha GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : Volume-8 | Issue-4 | April-2019

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