Multivariate Analysis of Rehabilitation Services Needs of People with Disability at Zhabei District in Shanghai / 中国康复理论与实践

ABSTRACT

@#Objective To provide the advice on how to optimize the allocation of resources and make other policy through the analysis factors affecting rehabilitation services needs of people with disability at Zhabei district in Shanghai.Methods The factors affecting rehabilitation services needs such as types of disability, disability levels, education, employment, marital status, age and sex were analyzed with Logistic analysis.Results The factors affecting primary rehabilitation services were types of disability, education, employment situation, marital status and sex. And people with disability had the characters of female, hearing disability, retired returned to more primary rehabilitation services, with OR values being 1.219, 1.544 and 1.533 respectively compared with itself controls. And the high educational disable people' will, returning to primary rehabilitation services, was weaker compared with low educational disable people. The factors affecting special rehabilitation services were types of disability and employment situation. And people with disability had the characters of hearing disability, unemployment returned to more special rehabilitation services, with OR values being 2.380 and 1.310 respectively compared with itself controls.Conclusion The rehabilitation needs are different among different groups people with disability, so the factors affecting rehabilitation services needs such as types of disability, education, employment situation, marital status and sex should be taken into consideration while activating primary rehabilitation services, while the types of disability and employment situation should be taken into more consideration while activating special rehabilitation services.