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The Effectiveness of Regional Rehabilitation Center for Children with Disabilities |
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Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine1, St. Vincent’s Hospital, College of Medicine,The Catholic University of Korea, Suwon, Republic of Korea, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine2 |
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Sehee Kim1*, Joon-Sung Kim2, Seong Hoon Lim2, Bo Young Hong2† |
Introduction:
The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health-Children and Youths (ICF-CY) defines that the decline in physical functioning caused by illness or health problem can lead to limitations of activity and restrictions on participation, which is also influenced by social and environmental impacts. Therefore, there is a need to revitalize support for rehabilitation treatment of children and adolescents with disabilities. Hwaseong City, which is located in Gyeonggi Province, has been operating rehabilitation centers for children with disabilities for twelve years.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the objective benefits of community-based disability child rehabilitation center in addition to improving human rights. We also tried to confirm the user satisfaction of the service provided.
Method:
The movement time calculation was made using the navigation program. We confirmed the travel time to places where pediatric rehabilitation is available such as the clinic, welfare center, and rehabilitation center from 9 locations in Hwaseong City several times, at 02:00 pm on Wednesday. User satisfactions were surveyed.
Results:
Table 1 shows that the minimum time required to reach the treatment facility. We compared the time difference between when there was a center and when there was no center operated by Hwaseong City. The time difference with the center was the biggest difference at the Songsan-myeon office, about 30 minutes by a car and 80 minutes by public transportation. This only measured the vehicle travel time so the actual travel time will be longer. Figure 1 clearly shows the traffic time difference between with the rehabilitation center by Hwaseong City and without the rehabilitation center by a car(Figure 1). User satisfaction points was 4.12 points out of 5 points (Table 2).
Conclusion:
In this study, we confirmed the effectiveness of the Rehabilitation Center for Children with Disabilities operated by local government. Shortening the travel time for treatment will contribute to the quality of life of the child and the caregiver. Also, user satisfaction was 4.12 points out of 5 points, which shows relatively high satisfaction of users.
The rehabilitation center operated by the local government will contribute to the improvement of the quality of life of the disabled child and family by shortening the travel time for the treatment when the supply of the place where pediatric rehabilitation treatment is available is less than the demand.
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Table 1. Minimum time required to arrive at a place where children can receive pediatric rehabilitation treatment
Table 2. The result of user satisfaction survey
Figure 1. Minimum time required to arrive by owner-driven car. A. Time measured at 9 am on Wednesday, B. Time measured at 5 pm on Tuesday.
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