This study is to analyze the casual relation among the influencing factors on the life quality of physically disabled women and present the invention methods for enhancing their life quality. Data were collected from 298 women with physical disability...
This study is to analyze the casual relation among the influencing factors on the life quality of physically disabled women and present the invention methods for enhancing their life quality. Data were collected from 298 women with physical disability, and the analysis results of them are as follows:
First, the significant influencing factors on their life quality according to the general characteristics are age, academic career, married or not, cause of disability, disorder grade, employed or not, the level of her and her family's income, and welfare benefit receiver or not.
Second, the index of the structure model for grasping the most adequate casual relation are selected through the modification process and appeared to be fitted. Also, main variables according to the examined results of the casual path of the modification model influenced their life quality.
Third, among the main variables set up in the study model, health and disorder attitude didn't influence their life quality directly but did indirectly through the social integration. Also, the factor health is the most influential among the indirectly affecting variables on their life quality.
Fourth, social support influenced their life quality directly and did indirectly through the intervening variable social integration as well.
Fifth, social integration influenced their life quality, and was the main variable intervening health, disorder attitude, and social support. Also, social integration is the most influential factor among the directly affecting main variables on their life quality.
On the basis of the above results, the political and practical invention methods for enhancing the life quality of physically disabled women are as follows:
First, to enhance the life quality of physically disabled women, general support system of their whole life should be built up.
Second, health of physically disabled women need to be supported as the health policy and service through strengthening social integration.
Third, the effort for improving general social recognition is required in the level of social integration for physically disabled women. In addition, many various social education programs for the physically disabled women to positively recognize about disorder discrimination such as differentiated empowerment programs, self-esteem programs, programs for self-management capacity, self-support groups and the like have to be developed.
Fourth, social support for enhancing the life quality of physically disabled women is important not only as human resource directly related to them but also as human resource confirmed through social integration. For that support, family support need to be strengthened through the cognition education programs, and the workshops for family with physically disabled women, and the regular meeting of their families, and many various programs like small groups for the disabled women reinforcing friends' and the others' support and the interchange of the friends need to be developed as well.
Fifth, the quality of physically disabled women is enhanced when social integration is accomplished. For this, community social network should be structured to the center of the community for the physically disabled women to live, and be supplied through considering the access, consumption, and participation available for the physically disabled women.
Finally, as this study has some limitations of the regional or cross-sectional study due to the deficit of the study on the life quality of physically disabled women, the longitudinal study taken into considerations for many different variables related to the quality of life need to be followed.