A Study on the effect of medically-oriented disabled person camp

Lee, Jun Young; Han, Seung Sang; Chung, Gwang Ick; Park, Kyung Won; Seon, Kwang Jin; Rowe, Sung Man

Abstract

Diasbled person camp was held by CUH (Chonnam University Hospital). Medical programs were carried out in order to reevaluate the severity of disability, to counsel disability, and to treat afterward. The subjects of this study were 38 handicapped youth selected in special schools and residental facilities. They were examined for their medical problems by 10 clinical departments of CUH and were measured functional status with functional assessment scales and Psychological status with SCL-90-R. The results were as follows: 1) The cases of medical problems were 29 cases in Department of Dentistry, 5 in Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, 22 in Department of Orthopedic Surgery, 11 in Department of Clinical Pathology, 7 in Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, 6 in Department of Neuropsychiatry, 4 in Department of Ophthamology and 4 in Department of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. 2) In relation to severity of disability and MBI, FIM, PULSES profile scores, mild cases were 98.3+/-3.3, 118.5+/-7.5, 8.3+/-1.0, moderate cases were 79.8+/-9.7, 99.8+/-15.9, 9.7+/-1.7 and severe cases were 27.9+/-10.9, 65.6+/-13.6, 12.9+/-1.9 respectively. 3) By means of SCL-90-R test, the decrease in depression and paranoid ideation were statistically significant.