Assessment suitability of the home rehabilitation for increasing the physical and psychological ability of disabled people
Journal Title: Fizjoterapia Polska - Year 2013, Vol 13, Issue 3
Abstract
lntroduction: Home rehabilitation is a service provided within the healthcare system. For handicapped people it is typically the only one option to maintain their physical ability of the highest reachable level. Goal of this paper was to analyze, whether home rehabilitation brings benefits to the physical and psychosocial ability of the handicapped people, or not.Materials and methods: 50 handicapped patients in age between 31 to 89, covered with the home rehabilitation programme, were invited to a survey condition of patients before the beginning of the rehabilitation programme — 1st Part of the survey, and after a half-year period of the rehabilitation — the 2nd Part was assessed. The questions concerned individual experience of patients relating to their physical and psychosocial condition, locomotion, routine activities, falls and ailments. Then the differences in the answers in both parts of the survey were analyzed in order to verify the rehabilitation effects. ln summing The results up, statistical methods available in the Statistica 9PL software were used. Results: Comparative analysis of the surveys, using basic statistics and Wilcoxon signed-rank test showed, among other things, an improvement in physical condition (p<0.05) and psychical condition (p< 0.05), an improvement in locomotion (p<0.07), in ability to leave home (p<0.05) and reduced fear of falling (p<0.05). 96% of The interviewees saw health benefits from the home rehabilitation. Conclusions: 1. The home rehabilitation brings advantages in terms of physical and psychosocial ability. 2. lt is especially important to the handicapped “bedridden” people and to people, who are not able to perform their routine, personal activites and their social roles by
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Michalina Musiałek, Dariusz Białoszewski, Maciej Janiszewski, Aleksandra Maciąg, Mirosław Dłużniewski
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