Needs and Service of Rehabilitation for People with Psychiatric Disability / 中国康复理论与实践

ABSTRACT

@#Objective To investigate the needs and service of rehabilitation for people with psychatric disability and influential factors to support the development of rehabilitation services for them. Methods The Administration Data of 2016 Basic Service Status and Needs of People with Disabilities in Henan Province were analyzed. Results The people with psychatric disability reported rehabilitation needs in mainly the medical rehabilitation, functional training and assistive products. The highest rate of need was medical rehabilitation (58.99%) and the lowest need was functional training (10.08%). There were significant differences in the rehabilitation needs for the people with psychiatric disability in ages, genders, household registration, levels of disability, levels of education, employment, household income, poverty and registration of poverty. Rehabilitation services for the people with psychiatric disability included medical rehabilitation services, functional training services and assistive products services. The reported rate of access was medical rehabilitation services (25.82%, highest), and the assistive products services (3.06%, lowest ). There were significant differences in rate of access in their household registration, levels of disability, levels of education, employment, household income, poverty and registration of poverty. Furthermore, family in poverty, lack of knowledge, traffic inconvenience and other factors also influenced the access of rehabilitation services for the people with psychiatric disability. Conclusion The needs of rehabilitation is high for people with psychiatric disability, especially in the field of medical rehabilitation. There were factors influencing the access of rehabilitation, including genders, household registration, and levels of disability, etc. The access rate of rehabilitation is low, including the medical rehabilitation. There were other influential factors including family economic status and transportation. It is proposed to improve the reported rate of rehabilitation needs, and the coverage, quality and efficiency of rehabilitation services for people with psychiatric disability.