General aim of the study: to identify the main social factors, which have negative effect on quality of life of 10-16 years old children with cerebral palsy, and to formulate recommendations for the elimination or reduction of these factors.
Objectives:
1. To estimate the social �� economical status of the families, having healthy or disabled children.
2. To evaluate some social integration aspects of healthy or disabled children: the access to health care, education and social services.
3. To find out differences in incidence of some social factors which have negative effect on quality of life in study populations.
4. To formulate the recommendations for the reduction of social factors, which have negative effect on quality of life of children.
Research method: The study was performed in Kaunas County (Kaunas, Jonava, Kedainiai, Raseiniai) in 2005. 154 families which have healthy children, and 150 families which have children with cerebral palsy aged from 10 to 16, were interviewed. For the data collection anonymous questionnaire was structured by the author of the study and tested in pilot study.
Results: The results of the study showed that the quality of life of Lithuanian disabled children and their families in the social and economic aspects is worse than in families which raise healthy children. It was estimated that the disabled children more often than healthy children grow with one of the parents (21%), in orphanage (10%) or at foster care (4, 4%). Disabled... [to full text]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2006~D_20060725_143353-24495 |
| Date | 25 July 2006 |
| Creators | Jurkutė, Eglė |
| Contributors | Petrauskienė, Jadvyga, Zaborskis, Apolinaras, Kalėdienė, Ramunė, Misevičienė, Irena, Kaunas University of Medicine |
| Publisher | Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Kaunas University of Medicine |
| Source Sets | Lithuanian ETD submission system |
| Language | Lithuanian |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Master thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2006~D_20060725_143353-24495 |
| Rights | Unrestricted |
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