ABSTRACT
Objective:
To explore the status of disability, and characteristics of unmet
needs and services of
rehabilitation for
children with disabilities (CWDs).
Methods:
A total of 130 290 CWDs
administration data of unmet
needs and services of
rehabilitation at provincial level had been sampled and analyzed.
Results:
CWDs accounted for 5.33% of the total
population with disabilities, in which, 60.4% were
boys and 39.6% were
girls; 16.3%
aged 0 to nine years and 83.7% were seven to 18 years old; 88.4% with agricultural
household and 11.6% with non-agricultural
household. The distribution of disability severity from severe to mild were 28.3%, 39.5%, 17.7% and 14.6%. The reported unmet
needs included
assistive devices (40.3%), functional
training (37.4%),
nursing care (32.2%),
medicine (24.9%) and
surgery (5.7%). The received services involved in
assistive devices (37.9%), functional
training (33.7%),
nursing care (31.0%),
medicine (19.7%) and
surgery (2.9%).
Logistic Regression model showed that severities of disabilities had significant effects on reported unmet
needs and received services (P < 0.001).
Conclusion:
Implement
rehabilitation programs would be tailored to the unmet
needs of
rehabilitation as CWDs had functioning oriented unmet
needs. It proposed to develop individualized and structured
rehabilitation services to improve the accessibility and quality of
rehabilitation for CWDs.