Social Inclusion and Mental Health of Children with Physical Disabilities in Gaza, Palestine

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15260%2F17%3A73583833" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15260/17:73583833 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dcidj.org/article/view/560/330" target="_blank" >http://dcidj.org/article/view/560/330</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5463/DCID.v27i4.560" target="_blank" >10.5463/DCID.v27i4.560</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Social Inclusion and Mental Health of Children with Physical Disabilities in Gaza, Palestine

Original language description

Social inclusion of children with physical disabilities is essential for their mental health. The long-standing conflict and political instability in Palestine since 1948 has resulted in an unprecedented number of children with disabilities. This study aimed to assess social inclusion and mental health of children with physical disabilities in Palestine. The 12-item General Health Questionnaire and the Brief Assessment of Social Inclusion for Children with Disability (BASIC-D) were administered to 100 children with amputations, 12-18 years of age, in the Gaza Strip. Ten semi-structured interviews were also conducted with personnel working across civil society rehabilitation services in the area, particularly in services that focussed on the physical rehabilitation of children who had lost a limb. Quantitative findings indicated that 88% of children’s disabilities were caused by war-related incidents. While the sample of children showed on average relatively low levels of psychological distress, males reported feeling more socially included and having better mental health than did females. There was a strong positive correlation between mental health and social inclusion, and a moderate positive correlation between psychological distress and social inclusion. The qualitative data identified different factors that hinder social inclusion, mainly: political instability; under-resourced disability organisations; lack of coordinated efforts; and negative societal attitudes towards disability. A new questionnaire for social inclusion was developed, named the Brief Assessment of Social Inclusion for Children with Disability (BASIC-D), which can now be used as a tool to assess social inclusion in similar contexts; as well as a culturally-adapted form of the General Health Questionnaire-12 to assess mental health.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50102 - Psychology, special (including therapy for learning, speech, hearing, visual and other physical and mental disabilities);

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Asia Pacific Disability Rehabilitation Journal

ISSN

1029-4414

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

27

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

IN - INDIA

Number of pages

32

Pages from-to

5-36

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85014757863