The incidence of spinal cord injury is on the increase due to various damages and accidents by the recent development of industry and complexity of society. The ultimate goal of rehabilitation for the spinal cord injured patients is to be social integ...
The incidence of spinal cord injury is on the increase due to various damages and accidents by the recent development of industry and complexity of society. The ultimate goal of rehabilitation for the spinal cord injured patients is to be social integration in order to help them enjoy independent and good quality of life as members of society in community. Toward this goal it is important for the handicapped person to build adaptability to the community for themselves. As for the community-based instruction, as it were, training of social adjustment, it is the ability of acquiring for living in a group of people in community as part of it. However, the rehabilitation program for the spinal cord injured patients is mainly focused on the execution of independent daily life movement at levels of wheelchair, so it leaves much to be desired in order to achieve social integration, a goal of rehabilitation. Accordingly, the goal of this study is to investigate the recognition and desire of community-based instruction(CBI) for the spinal cord injured patients, and suggest to achieve effective and systematic social adjustment. This study was to do survey in a way of self-administration method, using the structured questionnaire based on 110 admitted patients at the special hospital for rehabilitation that executed the training of social adjustment in Seoul and Gyeong-gi province intermittently or periodically. From the result of this research above, it may be summed up as follows.
1st. 70%(77 persons) of total respondents said that they knew the training of social adjustment, but the number of experienced persons to participate was just 23.6%(26 persons). Therefore, it needs positive public relations for training of social adjustment and extension of providing an opportunity.
2nd. As for the questions of policies necessary for the development of community-based instruction, the respondents made a response that they needed 'the intensification of guaranteed income policy and health policy in order to ease economic burden for the handicapped and their families', 'the introduction of systems for offering the convenience in dwelling for the handicapped like residential alterations, residential mediation, and financing, etc.', 'the extension of transportation means available by the handicapped like public transportation for the handicapped like subway and kneeling bus, etc. and call taxi and shuttle bus for the handicapped'. In addition, they answered that the training organization of social adjustment should offer 'the skill training of social adjustment', 'the housing service', and 'the activity assistant service' in the first place.
3rd. As a result of executing t-test in order to examine whether what the difference was at level of personal recognition of achieving social adjustment according to the training of social adjustment, a respondent group that replied to 'know' all the items like 'the level of personal will for achieving social adjustment (referred as "total marks of will" hereafter)' except for 'the recognition level of social service for achieving social adjustment (referred as "total marks of social service" hereafter)', 'the knowledge level for achieving social adjustment (referred as "total marks of knowledge" hereafter)', 'the skill level for achieving social adjustment (referred as "total marks of skill" hereafter)', 'the level of social environment and policy recognition for achieving social adjustment (referred as "total marks of social environment" hereafter)', and 'the total marks of personal level for achieving social adjustment (referred as "total marks of personal level" hereafter)' had higher personal recognition level for achieving social adjustment compared with a respondent group that replied 'not to know' all the items above. This study has shown that there was significant difference in 'total marks of will', 'total marks of knowledge', 'total marks of skill', 'total marks of social environment', and 'total marks of personal level' statistically.
4th. As a result of executing a multiple regression analysis of 'the recognition of training for social adjustment', 'sex', 'age', 'period after damage', 'degree of paralysis', 'paralysis type', 'grade of disabilities', 'medical security', 'educational background', 'marital status', and 'a person tending the sick' in order to analyze the effect of respondent's general characteristics on the personal level for social adjustment achievement, a respondent group that replied to 'know' the social adjustment training had higher in all the items like 'total marks of will', 'total marks of knowledge', 'total marks of skill', 'total marks of social environment', 'total marks of social service', 'total marks of personal achievement level' statistically compared with a respondent group that replied 'not to know' all the items above.
When it comes down to it, in order to achieve the spinal cord injured patients' social adjustment, it always needs to construct the social environment as well as to enhance of capacity in personal level to be equipped for social adjustment by opening up the possibility of intensifying public relations and education of social adjustment training, and experience. Therefore, it needs to precede the development of effective and systematic training program, support and service of various policies in order to help social adjustment.