在宅障害者の生活実態と地域理学療法 : 韓国釜山地域と青森県下北地域との比較研究

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国立情報学研究所の「学術雑誌公開支援事業」により電子化されました。The purpose of this paper is to improve the community-based physiotherapy programs in physiotherapy education in Korea and Japan. The study was conducted by a visiting team in Pusan, Korea, consisting of physiotherapists from Korea and Japan. The subjects were twenty-four participants selected from patients who had been discharged from Inje University Hospital. Two evaluation tools were used. One was the Barthel Index, used to assess ADL, and the other was an assessment by the Family Relationship Chart, an assessment tool concerning human relationships between the patient and his/her family members. The study found that there are almost no public service resources, especially community-based physiotherapy, for the disabled persons at home in this area. It seemed that the spouses' enthusiastic care negatively affected their husbands' motivation to recover. This study suggests that physiotherapists in Korea need to focus on patients and families after patients have been discharged from hospital. How to intervene in the relationship between disabled persons and their families at home is an important issue that should be tackled in physiotherapy education in Korea and Japan.
2006-06-30