J Nurs Acad Soc.  1986 Aug;16(2):63-69.

Analytic studies on self-care activities and social activities of physically disabled person

• Kim YI

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to find out variables relevant to self-care activities of physically disabled person. The subjects of this analysis were 1277 person which is between 15~64 years, the data came from the 1985 National Interview-Survey on Disabled Person in Korea. For this analysis, Breakdown, Oneway and Discriminant Analysis were used. The finding of the analysis can be summarized as follows: First, the mean of self-care activities-was 2.57 (SD: 0.69, range: 1-3). The relevance for the self-care activities by several variables is-as follows. 1. The relevance for the self-care activities by socio-economic status is significant at age, education level, occupation of household members variables. Especially, in the case of high age, low education level, the self- care activities are shown low score. 2. The relevance by impairment characteristics is shown high significance at all input variables. When disabled person have double impairment, paralysis, late occurance age, and is due to diseases, the self-care activities score is lowered. 3. The relevance by health care services variables-is not shown significant at all input variables. Second, the relevance for social activities by several variables was conducted by discriminant analysis. The relative importance of social activities discriminant function is 0.344 of eigenvalue. The canonical correlation between the social activities discriminant function and 9 dummy variables is 0.51, total variance of dummy variables for social activities is shown 26 persent. The self-care activities variable represents the highest contribution of its associated variable to the function (canonical coefficient: -.56). The occurance age, the occupation of household members, the education level, variables are shown comparatively high contribution to the function. To sum up, this analysis suggests that the selfcare activities variable is the highest contributed to the social activities. In relation to self-care concept, this finding will be useful in rehabilitation nursing care.

MeSH Terms

Delivery of Health Care
Disabled Persons*
Education
Family Characteristics
Humans
Korea
Occupations
Paralysis
Rehabilitation Nursing
Self Care*