Physical and Psychological Self-Care Assessment for Disabled clients attending Emergency Management Center in Erbil City

Abstract

Background: The World Health Organization's (WHO) framework for measuring health for disability at both levels physical and psychological activities including self-care, attending to one's hygiene, dressing, and eating, also interpersonal interactions and relationships, and social relationships, especially family relationships.

Objectives: This study aims to identify and assess the self care activities for disabled patients, and to identify the relationship between sociodemographic characteristics and physical and psychological factors.

Methodology: The study is Descriptive study, the study sample were 51 disabled clients who had been attended to emergency management center, the study start in 1/7/2014 to 1/2/2015, Constructed questionnaires were used to obtain the feedback, and interview was used as methods of data collection and data was analyzed using SPSS version 18. 

Results: The mean age of the participants was (36.66) years. Results revealed that feedback responses as a general
was good in all factors underline the study, and the lowest score for physical self care was in items related to ability
to do sexual activity while for psychological factors was for item related to concern of having any own personal
psychotherapy .

Conclusion: the study concluded that Self care assessment outcomes for disabled were positive for the most of the
physical factors except for sexual intercourse while the psychological self care assessment were negative in many
factors including haven't own personal psychotherapy, not engage in any intelligence in new area, and ability to read favorite books 

Recommendation: The study recommended establishing rehabilitation centers for training disabled about physical
and psychological care and informing these negative factors to the emergency management center so the information gained of self care assessment could lead to changes in some of physical and psychological aspect of disabled clients