The Effect of Communities Based Rehabilitation for Disabled Persons in Ubon Ratchathani Province - ผลการให้บริการฟื้นฟูสมรรถภาพคนพิการในชุมชนจังหวัดอุบลราชธานี

Abstract

In 2008, there were 22,012 disabled persons in Ubon Ratchatani mostly with physical disabilities
in rural areas. Based on Division of Physical Therapy’s record, Sappasitthiprasong Hospital,
stroke patients were the third most common to be treated in the acute phase. They were quickly
discharged without rehabilitation service in their communities and became burden of family and
society. A rehabilitation service was developed to provide these people with disabilities as follows;
1) establish a network of rehabilitation for people with disabilities, 2) train the villages’ health
volunteers, 3) creat a rehabilitation storage program, 4) establish a caravan of mobile rehabilitation
service into the communities, and 5) establish a caravan of mobile repairing mobility aids service
for disabilities. Therefore, the aims of this study was to study the effect of communities based
rehabilitation for disabled persons in Ubon Ratchathani province. A descriptive research was performed
in a group of people with disabilities in Ubon Ratchatani from January 2008 to September
2010. Data were analyzed employing descriptive statistics. The results showed that total persons
with disabilities increasingly received rehabilitation in communities in 2008, 2009 and 2010; 24.79
percent, 36.88 and 83.8 percent respectively. The total amounts of mobility aids for disabilities also
increased. People with disabilities could help themselves increasingly from 62.5percent, to 69.6 and
71.0 percent. Incidence of bedsore decreased from 1.85 percent to 1.62 percent and 1.02 percent.
The amount of damaged mobility aids repairing increased. This model of the communities based
rehabilitation for disable persons in cooperation with a network in Ubon Ratchatani increased the
number of people with disabilities provided with rehabilitation service which enhances more selfhelp
for the disabilities.
Key words: rehabilitation, disabled persons, community based service