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The definition of disabilitybythe students of
lubelszczyzna

• Kamil Grudzien, Karol Sitarz, Renata Skomorowska,
  Anna Siwek
• Students Research Board of Physiotherapy
• Faculty of Nursing and Health Science
• Medical Academy of Feliks Skubiszewski in Lublin

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Goals and methods of researches

• Goals
• Definition of disability according to students of
  physiotherapy
• Define some important characteristics of good
  physiotherapist

• METHODS
• Questionnaire with certificate
• Picking up adjectives related to defining
  disabillity arranged to scale of Likert (from 2
  to -2) in following categories medical, social,
  economical and psychological.

• MATERIAL information from 150 students of
  physiotherapy
• Medical Academy in Lublin (n59), Academy of
  Physical Education in Warszawa ZWWF Biala
  Podlaska (n27), The College of Management and
  Public Administration in Zamosc (n25), The
  College of Social-Nature in Lublin (n19) for
  analysis were qualified 130 filled questionnaires
  (90 women, 40 men)

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The definition of disability according to
medical category

• DESCRIPTION OF CATEGORY
• 2 subject of medical researches
• 1 person not fully efficient
• 0 I dont have opinion
• - 1 patient
• - 2 object of medical researches

Comment The most of students descripe disabled
person as a client of medical healthcare
clinics and as a functional restricted only
12,3 describe disabled as a collaborator of
therapeutic process.
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The definition of disabilityaccording to social
category

• DESCRIPTION OF CATEGORY
• 2 disabled person not only have the same
  rights as a healthy but also some special,
  antydiscrimination rights.
• 1 have the same rights as a healthy person
• 0 I dont have opinion
• - 1 disabled person should have same special
  rights
• - 2 is a second category person

Comment The most of students agree that disabled
people should have the same rigths as a healthy
citiziens and shouldnt be discriminated.10,8 of
students consider disabled person as a second
category citizien.
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The definition of disabilityaccording to
economical category

• DESCRIPTION OF CATEGORY
• 2 person independent financially
• 1 pensioner who needed financial help
• 0 I dont have opinion
• - 1 its a strain of state finances
• - 2 subject of welfare work

Comment Nearly half of students think welfare
benefits are not enought for ensure economical
independence of disabled people.1/4 of students
descripe disabled as a poor citiziens.
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The definition of disabilityaccording to
psychological category

• DESCRIPTION OF CATEGORY
• 2 super invalid
• 1 active
• 0 I dont have opinion
• - 1 inactive
• - 2 passive and dening

Comment Over 40 of students underline active
attitude of disabled people. But another 40
dont remark a psychological aspect of
disability 1/5 of students remark negative
attitude of disabled people in relation to their
disability (passiveness and inactiveness).
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Direction and strength of definition in categories
Comment Students estimate disabled people at
most in social category. Worse situation is in
medical category. In other categories there are
ambivalent opinions. There is no differences in
defining disability between women and men.
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Discussion

• Education of future physiotherapists should
  touch on problems of social rehabilitation. So
  its very important to descripe students
  attitude to future patients-disabled people.
  Defining disability is one of methods being used
  to descripe these attitudes (verbal index).
  Students recognize problems of disabled people
  but they have different opinions in medical and
  psychological category. They remark also bad
  financial situation of disabled. These
  information are not dependent on gender or kind
  of university as well.

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Conclusions

• Characterization of our definition of
  disability
• Negative associations predominate possitive in
  medical category
• Possitive associations predominate negative in
  following categories social and economical
• In psychological category possitive associations
  predominate negative but in this category the
  most of people dont have opinion about disabled
  people.

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Implications of physiotherapists education

• In education of future physiotherapists should
  be more underlined problems of social integration
  of diabled people. Its very important to pay
  attention on subjective treatment of disabled in
  the whole complesive rehabilitation process
  (preventive treatment, therapy, integration).
  Researches prove that many students are not
  interested in psychological problems of disabled
  people. So this is most important to underline
  these problems in education of future
  physiotherapists.