scholarly journals Views on the quality of life of people with disabilities in the light of their involvement in sport activities

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (Special Issue 1) ◽  
pp. 97-103
Author(s):  
REMIGIUSZ DROZDZ

Background: ‪The quality of life of people with disabilities is the result of many factors. Apart from health, functional and mental parameters, it is determined by several social conditions. This approach, however, concerns an objective perspective, apart from which there is also a subjective perspective. This is an internal approach that affects the sense of the quality of life, to a limited extent referring to the quality of life itself. Therefore, it can be assumed that the subjective views on the quality of life will be determined by the location in the social context, an example of which is sport activity. The aim of the research was to find out the opinions of disabled athletes about the quality of life in the context of their participation in various forms of physical activities. Material and methods: The research analysis was conducted on 107 disabled athletes and 19 disabled non-athletes. A diagnostic survey method was used with a questionnaire technique. The research tool was the Quality of Life Index, an American scale which belongs to the global category of scales and is composed of a series of questions referring to different areas of life. Results: ‪The results of the survey did not confirm more positive opinions about the quality of life among disabled athletes. The differences between the groups turned out to be statistically insignificant in most cases. Conclusions: ‪Since most of the research results to date indicate a positive impact of regular physical activity on self-esteem and the quality of life, it seems necessary to explore this problem on a larger research sample of people with disabilities.

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 343
Author(s):  
Huda AbdlAziz Aldegheiry

The present research paper aims to identify the impact of sport activity on the quality of life of Saudi women (i.e., fitness and health, social aspects, psychological aspects, moral aspects, and mental aspects). It also aims to develop mechanisms to activate the sport activity to improve the quality of life of Saudi women. The sample consisted of (N= 384) Saudi women in Riyadh. The author applied a questionnaire to collect data. The results showed that sport activity has a high impact on fitness and the psychological and moral aspects and a high to moderate impact on the social and mental aspects of the Saudi woman. The study recommends activating the media role in disseminating sport culture and awareness among (children- teenager- elderly) women by publishing a sport activity supervised-bulletin to cover the sport activities, objectives, programs, as well as time and place of practice. In turn, this could promote positive aspects towards the practice of sport activities.   Received: 29 March 2021 / Accepted: 26 May 2021 / Published: 8 July 2021


2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dagmar Nemček

SummaryThe aim of the study was to compare the satisfaction with quality of life indicators (QoLI) and quality of life domains (QoLD) scores between people with physical disabilities (PPD) and people who are deaf or hard of hearing (PD/HH) from sport participation point of view. The study included 315 individuals with PPD (n = 150; male = 76) and PD/HH (n = 165; male = 85) divided into two groups of those who are regularly participating in sport and those who are not participating in any sport activity in their leisure. The second part of the Subjective Quality of Life Analysis (S.QUA.L.A.) was used. The Pearson chi-square test was used to determine the differences in 23 QoLI and 5 QoLD between PPD and PD/HH from sport participation point of view and student’s two-sample t-test was used to compare overall quality of life (QoL). We found that PD/HH who are participating regularly in sport presented significantly higher satisfaction with 7 evaluated QoLI and with all 5 QoLD. Overall QoL score was significantly higher (p < .01) in PD/HH. In the group of people who are not participating in sport we found significantly higher satisfaction with 13 QoLI in PD/HH and with 8 QoLI in PPD. Satisfaction with 4 QoLD was significantly higher in PD/HH and only with domain (physical health) were significantly higher satisfied PPD (p < .01). Overall QoL score did not show significant differences between groups of people with disabilities who are not participating in any sport. The results of our study confirmed that PD/HH have significantly higher QoL comparing PPD no matter if they participating in sport or not. This evaluation measured by S.QUA.L.A shows that it is a suitable tool to asses QoL in people with different kinds of disabilities.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 112
Author(s):  
Siti Nur Anisah ◽  
Ratna Djuwita ◽  
Mondastri K. Sudaryo

The quality of life of Tuberculosis (TB) patients is very important to be considered due to infectious disease is chronic that it can affect quality of life. In order to improve quality of life is by providing social support to TB patients. This study aims to discuss the influence of social support to the quality of life of TB patients. This was a longitudinal study (repeated measurements). Data collection with interviews to respondents using the WHOQOL-BREF and Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS). Data analysis using General Estimation of Equotion. The results showed that social support has a strong influence to the quality of life of TB patients (OR = 7.9); An influential source of social support to improve the quality of life of TB patients were family, friends and significant others. Family support provides the highest contribution with an OR of 19.7; An influential type of social support to improve the quality of life of TB patients were emotional, informational and companionship support. Emotional support provides the highest contribution with an OR of 7.4. Social support to TB patients given at the 5th month of treatment have a positive impact on the quality of life with PAR% was 70%. This study recommends improving the social support to TB patients to increase quality of life of TB patients.


Author(s):  
Aleksandra Cuprika ◽  
Andra Fernate ◽  
Leonids Cupriks

<p><em>Forming as many interpersonal relationships as possible is one of the most important goals in peoples’ lives.</em> <em>Mutual p</em><em>hysical activities create a basis for social belonging.</em> <em>Therefore, the goal of the study is </em><em>to determine the correlation between the components of social belonging and physical activity among women in fitness.</em> <em>The social belonging analysis was conducted with the use of questionnaires (adopted in Latvian), and a shortened version of IPAQ to determine the levels of physical activity.</em> <em>The components of social belonging were defined, and several weak, but significant, correlations between these components and the level of physical activity were found.</em> <em>According to the data obtained in the current study we can conclude, that social belonging has positive impact on PA. Those, who more often feel the relatedness, satisfactory from interpersonal relationship and inclusion in the social groups are more physically active. In order to evaluate, how the quality of life aspect of social belonging for women in fitness correlates with physical activity, they must be taken into account.</em></p><p> </p>


Author(s):  
N. O. Nebaba ◽  
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H. Y. Bohorodytska ◽  
I. A. Maliuta ◽  
M. V. Tretiak ◽  
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In the article the principles of improving the quality of life of the population of Ukraine were analyzed, a method of calculating the quality of life of the population of the world was developed. The solution of the tasks was carried out with the use of general scientific research methods: abstraction, analysis and synthesis, generalization, formalization, as well as special methods of analysis: structural, statistical, logical. The authors have analyzed the state of factors influencing the quality of life of the population of Ukraine: purchasing power index, safety index, health care index, cost of living index, property price to income ratio, traffic commute time index, pollution index, climate index, GDP by PPP per capita in international dollars, rating of political and civil liberties, life expectancy at birth, unemployment rate, gender equality index. General recommendations for improving the condition of these factors and priority areas have been identified. The general approaches to development of methods of calculation of quality of life of the population of the world countries are defined. A method for calculating the quality of life of the population has been developed: 5 indicators that have a positive impact on the quality of life and 5 indicators that have a negative impact on the quality of life of the population have been identified; mentioned weights of each of these indicators. The Index of Quality of Life of the Population of Ukraine, neighboring countries and developed world countries was calculated according to the developed calculation method, the obtained results have been compared with the Numbeo Quality of Life Index.


2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 43-54
Author(s):  
Elena Bendíková ◽  
Ľudmila Jančoková ◽  
Božena Paugschová

This article presents partial results, based on the lifestyle of seniors with a focus on the particular determinants (with focus on sport activities), which belong to key social factors of the quality of life of seniors. Survey respondents were seniors from Liptovsky Mikulas city. A questionnaire was used to detect primary indicators of quality of life and lifestyle of seniors. The findings significantly showed that physical education and sport activity play an important role in maintaining social contacts, bonds, health and independence, which are particularly specific in that age of seniors from different points of view.


2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
Dina Andesty ◽  
Fariani Syahrul

The number of elderly in many countries is increasing, including in Indonesia. Along with the increasing number of elderly, many problems will be experienced by the elderly such as psychological disorders, pathological disorders on physical conditions, access to health services that is difficult to obtain and less social support from family or friends. Lack of social support will affect the social interaction of elderly. Social interaction can have a positive impact on the quality of life because the social interaction of the elderly do not feel lonely, therefore social interaction must be developed and maintained in the elderly group. The purpose of this study is to analyze the social interaction with the quality of life of the elderly in UPTD Griya werdha Surabaya. This study used cross sectional study design. The study population is all elderly in UPTD Griya Werdha Surabaya City. The sample size is as much as 52 elderly are taken using simple random sampling method. The dependent variable of the research is the quality of life of the elderly and the independent variable is social interaction. The research instrument used WHOQOL-OLD questionnaire. The result of the research shows taht there is relationship between social interaction with quality of life of elderly in UPTD Griya Werdha Surabaya ( p-value = 0.017). The conclusion of this study is social interaction related to the quality of life of the elderly, the worse the social interaction of the elderly, the lower the quality of life. The suggestion from this research is to increase social interaction of elderly by increasing daily activity of elderly in order to often gather and interact with each other.


2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-40
Author(s):  
Svetlana Obradović ◽  
Thomas Nikodelis ◽  
Milica Stojković

Although there are numerous categorizations and large differences in the specific characteristics between individual categories of disabilities, they all have something in common - barriers that people with disabilities deal with. Social, physical and mental limitations can be reduced or removed through sport, which can significantly improve the quality of life of people with disabilities, as we will try to document in this paper by research findings. Unfortunately, even today, the usual societal attitude about the quality of life of people with disabilities is not focusing on specific social and cultural context affecting disability. Instead, we are still focusing on individual coping strategies and behaviors in response to difficulties arising from biological limitations. Psychology is one of the sciences whose contribution to this topic can be important, especially in providing a framework for evidence-based practice. Simultaneously, promoting this topic can, hopefully, contribute to improving relevant policy.


1986 ◽  
Author(s):  
John N. Morris ◽  
Samy Suissa ◽  
Sylvia Sherwood ◽  
Susan M. Wright ◽  
David Greer

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