scholarly journals THE PROBLEM OF DISABILITY IN THE ASSESSMENT OF PARAMEDICS

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 61-66
Author(s):  
E. Zieliński ◽  
P. Dzięgielewski ◽  
M. Zieliński ◽  
B. Motylewski ◽  
D. Skalski
Keyword(s):  
Neurological Diseases ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Preliminary Assessment ◽  
Third Place ◽  
Microsoft Excel ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Attitudes And Knowledge ◽  
Medical University

The disability problem is an important issue that paramedics also face. Their attitudes and knowledge about this phenomenon may largely depend on the contact they make with a disabled person, and this in turn will be reflected in the activities that will be performed by the rescuer. The very method of collecting medical history is important in further rescue proceedings. The paper presents a variety of aspects in the approach to disability expressed in tests carried out on paramedics. The intention of the authors was to signal the problem of disability and attempt to make a preliminary assessment of the subjective attitudes of medical students towards people with disabilities. This study is a preliminary report, and the leitmotiv of this publication is the willingness to interest the subject of other researchers and to share already available results. Statistical analysis shows that among the causes of disability, the most common are damage and diseases of the musculoskeletal system – 46.5% in second place are cardiovascular diseases – 45.5%, and neurological diseases to which we want to devote broad attention are in third place in this statistical and constitute 23.9%. The study was conducted in May 2019 in a group of 60 students (30 women and 30 men) aged 20-22 attending medical universities in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. The research tool was the author's own survey containing closed questions. Participation in the study was voluntary and anonymous. The respondents were asked about demographic data: the perception of the disabled, knowledge of problems related to the disabled and ways of supporting the disabled. The results were developed using Microsoft Excel 2010 from the Windows 7 package, using the appropriately available spreadsheet functions. The obtained results justify the careful conclusion that the problem of disability, seen through the eyes of medical university students, is not only noticed but assessed by them. Students very emphatically referred to the problem of disabled people taken up in the article.

scholarly journals Niepełnosprawność w historii sztuki oraz anty-ableizm sztuki współczesnej

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Stawowy
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Social Involvement ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Subject

The subject of illness and disability has been explored by artists for a long time. Depending on the era, it was presented in different ways. Twentieth-century social movements, interested in emancipating otherness, shed new light on the perception of the human body and its causative capabilities. Currently, the artist is more a commentator of reality than its passive observer and disability is one of the most important subjects of art. The exclusion, which used to involve disabled people, seems to be passing nowadays, however the problem of ableism still exists. Contemporary artists refer to it in their works trying to face harmful stereotypes. The purpose of this article is to look at disability through the eyes of artists, to find its representations in works of art and to trace how the perception of the disabled body has changed, based on the aesthetics and canon of a given age – from the perfect body of antique to the social involvement of contemporary art.

scholarly journals Television, disabled people and formative curriculum of the teachers

Comunicar ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (25) ◽  
Author(s):  
María-Mercedes López-González ◽  
Mercedes López-González
Keyword(s):  
Mental Representation ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
The Other ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Methodological Considerations ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion ◽  
Estudiantes Universitarios ◽  
Formación Permanente

In this paper one presents the development and some results of a practical activity that forms a part of the formative program of students of Teaching, in relation to the subject «Psycho-pedagogic Bases of the Special Education». The activity supposes the utilization of the television as curricular resource and we it come leading to end for years, which experience allows us to recount some methodological considerations and think about its results. The activity includes a double slope. On one hand, to study the images of the disabled people projected in the television, as important mass media that determines the mental representation and social attitudes in relation with this group. On the other hand, to use the formative content of diverse programs that presents, from different perspectives or approaches, the reality of the persons with disability or people with educational special needs. Es una realidad indiscutible que la televisión constituye una valiosa herramienta cultural, no sólo para comunicar, informar y entretener al público televidente, sino también, y especialmente, para formar a los espectadores y espectadoras como sujetos activos, críticos y solidarios en una sociedad plural. En la Cumbre 2000 de Comunicación y Educación, celebrada en Toronto, y en otros encuentros posteriores sobre el tema, diversos representantes institucionales y dirigentes de medios de comunicación enfatizaron la necesidad, y su consiguiente compromiso práctico, de desarrollar la vertiente formativa de la televisión, como importante vehículo para la formación permanente de las sociedades contemporáneas y futuras. Formar no significa únicamente transmitir la cultura como un conjunto de conocimientos que el sujeto debe asimilar. Significa, además, y especialmente según la propuesta freiriana de pedagogía de la liberación, formar conciencia y pensamiento crítico, algo fundamental en la tarea que nos ocupa de preparación de los futuros y futuras profesionales de la educación. En esta Comunicación presentamos el desarrollo y algunos resultados de una actividad práctica que forma parte del programa formativo del alumnado de magisterio, en relación con una materia de carácter troncal en los planes de estudios de todas las especialidades de esta carrera universitaria: Bases Psicopedagógicas de la Educación Especial. Actividad que supone el aprovechamiento de la televisión como recurso curricular y que venimos llevando a cabo desde hace años, cuya experiencia nos permite referir algunas consideraciones metodológicas y reflexiones sobre sus resultados. La ejecución práctica de la actividad comprende una doble vertiente. Por una parte, estudiar las imágenes de las personas con discapacidad proyectadas en la televisión, como importante medio de comunicación que condiciona la representación mental y las actitudes sociales en relación con este colectivo. Por otra parte, supone utilizar el contenido formativo de diversos programas de interesante valor formativo y cultural, que se centran en distintas dimensiones vitales y refieren, desde diferentes perspectivas o enfoques, la realidad de las personas con discapacidad o personas con necesidades educativas especiales. La televisión se convierte así en un medio idóneo para facilitar la comprensión de las dificultades, necesidades y demandas de un importante sector de la sociedad que en el futuro será objeto de atención profesional, educativa en nuestro caso, por parte de los actuales estudiantes universitarios.

scholarly journals ПІДХІД ДО ЗАСТОСУВАННЯ ВІДКРИТИХ РЕСУРСІВ БІОСИГНАЛІВ PHYSIONET ДЛЯ ПРОВЕДЕННЯ РОЗРАХУНКУ ПОКАЗНИКІВ ВАРІАБЕЛЬНОСТІ СЕРЦЕВОГО РИТМУ ЗА ДАНИМИ ЕКГ (ЧАСОВИЙ АНАЛІЗ) У НАВЧАННІ СТУДЕНТІВ МЕДИКІВ

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. V. Vakulenko ◽  
S. N. Vadzyuk ◽  
A. V. Semenets ◽  
O. M. Kuchvara ◽  
N. O. Kravets ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Heart Rate Variability ◽  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Time Analysis ◽  
Microsoft Excel ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Medical University

The methodology of teaching students at the I. Ya. Gorbachevsky Ternopil state medical university (the subject is medical informatics, the topic is «Biosignals») is described. It is proposed to use PhysioNet's open resource for analyzing heart rate variability on ECG records (time analysis) using the Microsoft Excel VBA user features.

Medical students’ perceptions of people with disabilities

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-0 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Guzowski ◽  
A. Kułak-Bejda ◽  
B. Stelcer ◽  
M. Jasiński ◽  
CR. Łukaszuk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Satisfaction With Life Scale ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Life Scale ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Medical University

Introduction: Little is known about associations of attitudes of medical students towards people with disabilities and their life satisfaction and empathy. Purpose: To assess the social perception of people with disabilities by medical students. Materials and methods: The present study interviewed 451 medical students of the Medical University of Białystok regarding their perceptions of people with disabilities, especially in light of their own satisfaction with life and empathy. We used the following questionnaires: the original questionnaire about attitudes towards people with disabilities, The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), and Empathy Understanding Questionnaire (KRE). Results: Attitudes towards people with disabilities people were generally positive. Almost 40% of respondents expressed a willingness to help for people with disabilities. In general, disabled people do not have full access to all fields of social (63.4%) and professional (63.2%) life. At the same time, disabled people tend to marry (84.9%), have children (82.1%), work (88.2%), and drive cars (76.1%). Respondents were convinced that contact with a disabled person teaches ways to help others (42.1%), and in fact 58.6% of respondents reported having decided to participate with helping the disabled. The average life satisfaction of the students was 22.7 ± 5.3 which indicates that the respondents are satisfied with their lives. The empathy level of respondents was 66.97 points ± 2.98, which indicates average level of empathy. Conclusions: This study shows that students’ perception of people with disabilities depends upon how the students viewed disabled people’s, life satisfaction and empathy.

scholarly journals Sequence Analysis of How Disability Influenced Life Trajectories in a Past Population from the Nineteenth-Century Sundsvall Region, Sweden

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 97-119
Author(s):  
Lotta Vikström ◽  
Helena Haage ◽  
Erling Häggström Lundevaller
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Sequence Analysis ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Premature Deaths ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
The Life Course

Historically, little is known about whether and to what extent disabled people found work and formed families. To fill this gap, this study analyses the life course trajectories of both disabled and non-disabled individuals, between the ages of 15 and 33, from the Sundsvall region in Sweden during the nineteenth century. Having access to micro-data that report disabilities in a population of 8,874 individuals from the parish registers digitised by the Demographic Data Base, Umeå University, we employ sequence analysis on a series of events that are expected to occur in life of young adults: getting a job, marrying and becoming a parent, while also taking into account out-migration and death. Through this method we obtain a holistic picture of the life course of disabled people. Main findings show that their trajectories did not include work or family to the same extent as those of non-disabled people. Secondary findings concerning migration and mortality indicate that the disabled rarely out-migrated from the region, and they suffered from premature deaths. To our knowledge this is the first study to employ sequence analysis on a substantially large number of cases to provide demographic evidence of how disability shaped human trajectories in the past during an extended period of life. Accordingly, we detail our motivation for this method, describe our analytical approach, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages associated with sequence analysis for our case study.

scholarly journals Disability and sport as a tool to redefine social identity. The Content Analysis of some statements by disabled people

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 553-565
Author(s):  
Simonetta Secondini
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common

The aim of the present work is to underline that the partecipation in sport activies may be linked to identity formation and to the process of redefinition of identity, following events that led to phisical disabilities. Sport can be a tool capable of helping people with supervening disability to rebuild their identity. In addition, it may contibute to the modification of the common place which considers the disabled persons as an unfit person. In seeking to prove these assumptions, this study, by applying the Content Analysis, has qualitatively investigated, trough analyse of some open ended interviews, conducted from journalist to disabled people who practice sports, the most meanigful aspects of partecipation in adptive sports and if this partecipation can help the process of redefining of the identity or its negotiation and can help to bring out the resilient capacity of the subject.

scholarly journals Intellectual Disability and Experiencing Happiness

2019 ◽  
pp. 51-66
Author(s):  
ANNA PORCZYŃSKA-CISZEWSKA
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Life Situation ◽  
Intellectually Disabled ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Rehabilitation Process ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
The Subject

Anna Porczyńska-Ciszewska, Intellectual Disability and Experiencing Happiness. Interdisciplinary Contexts of Special Pedagogy, no. 24, Poznań 2019.Pp. 51-66. Adam Mickiewicz University Press. ISSN 2300-391X. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14746/ikps.2019.24.03 Although it may be challenging to unambiguously recognize and define it, the notion of experiencing happiness, a constituent of psychological well-being, is undoubtedly one of the key traits featuring every person, whether intellectually fit or disabled. The feeling of happiness plays a significant role when coping with various types of situations including also the circumstances faced by an intellectually disabled person. Due to the diversity and multeity of the dimensions where it occurs, the experience of happiness can be subject of analyses from various stances, including the viewpoint of an intellectually disabled person. It seems that the disabled individual’s ability to deal with difficulties, which also influences efficiency of the rehabilitation process, is actually determined by the feelings of happiness, content and optimism, all of which remain in a relation with one’s personality, life situation,and conditions in which they live. The article draws attention to the subject of experiencing happiness by and psychological well-being of intellectually disabled people. It emphasizes the possibility of both theoretical and practical applications of assumptions of positive psychology as a requisite condition for the optimization of functioning of intellectually disabled people. Beyond any doubt, due care for the intellectually disabled people’s experience of happiness and psychological wellbeing is one of the most crucial requirements of their rehabilitation process as “positive states of mind (…) provide the power to struggle with adversities of life”

Prescribing trends of antidiabetic drugs in diabetic and hypertensive diabetic patients in an urban tertiary care hospital of Bangladesh

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 338-343
Author(s):  
Mohammad Didar Khan ◽  
Md. Ibrahim ◽  
Md. Mizanur Rahman Moghal ◽  
Dipti debnath ◽  
Asma Kabir ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Diabetic Patients ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Microsoft Excel ◽  
Patient Profile ◽  
Prescribing Trends ◽  
Medical University ◽  
Insight Into

Objective: The present epidemiological study was conducted with the objectives of providing an insight into the current use of antidiabetic medications to diabetics and hypertensive diabetics in urban areas and determining how the patient factors influence the prescribing of antidiabetic medications. Methodology: Data of patients of past two years were collected from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The details were entered in the structured patient profile form. Data were statistically analyzed using the Microsoft Excel 2007 software. Result: A total of 958 patient’s data were collected and analyzed of which 632 (65.97 %) were males and 326 (34.03 %) were females. These patients were further categorized based on their age. 330 patients (34.45 %) belonged to the age group 20 – 44 years, 504 (52.61 %) to the age group 45 – 65 years and 124 (12.94 %) to the age group 65 – 80 years. 684 (71.4%) patients out of the 958 patients studied were suffering from coexisting hypertension. Co-existing hypertension was found to be more prevalent in the age group 45 – 65 years (67.69%) and was found more in females (84.04%). Conclusion: Metformin was the oral hypoglycemic which was the highest prescribed. In hypertensive diabetics Metformin and Pioglitazone were most frequently prescribed drugs. Biguanides and Insulin were the most commonly prescribed antidiabetics. A combination of two or more drugs of different classes was prescribed to hypertensive diabetics. It is necessary to have an improved understanding of the etiology and pathophysiology of diabetes to focus on research efforts appropriately.

scholarly journals Relationship between Sleep Duration Trajectories and Self-Rated Depressive Symptoms in South Koreans with Physical Disabilities

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 361
Author(s):  
Su Jeong Yi ◽  
Yoo Mi Jeong ◽  
Jae-Hyun Kim
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Sleep Duration ◽  
Bayes Factor ◽  
Physical Disabilities ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Physically Disabled ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Physically Disabled People ◽  
The Relationship

Physically disabled persons can have sleep problems, which affects their mental health more than those in non-disabled people. However, there are few studies on the relationship between sleep duration and mental health targeting physically disabled people in South Korea, and existing studies on the disabled have mostly used data collected from convenience rather than nationally representative samples, limiting the generalization of the results. This study used data from the second wave of the Panel Survey of Employment for the Disabled (PSED, 2016–2018, 1st–3rd year). Participants included 1851 physically disabled individuals. The Chi-square test and generalized estimating equation (GEE) were used and the Akaike information criterion (AIC) value and the AIC log Bayes factor approximation were used to select sleep trajectories. This is the first study to elucidate multiple sleep trajectories in physically disabled people in Korea, and the relationship between sleep duration trajectories and self-rated depressive symptoms. People with physical disabilities who sleep more than 9 h have the highest risk of depression and need more intensive management as a priority intervention.

Ethics and entangled embodiment: Bodies–materialities–organization

Organization ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Dale ◽  
Yvonne Latham
Keyword(s):  
Disabled People ◽  
Material World ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Ethical Relation ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Political Position ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Radical Alterity ◽  
The Disabled

In this article, we are concerned with the ethical implications of the entanglement of embodiment and non-human materialities. We argue for an approach to embodiment which recognises its inextricable relationship with multiple materialities. From this, three ethical points are made: first, we argue for an ethical relation to ‘things’ not simply as inanimate objects but as the neglected Others of humanity’s (social and material) world. Second, there is a need to recognise different particularities within these entanglements. We draw on the work of Merleau-Ponty and Levinas to think through how the radical alterity of these Others can be acknowledged, whilst also recognising our intercorporeal intertwining with them. Third, we argue that recognition of this interconnectedness and entanglement is a necessary ethical and political position from which the drawing of boundaries and creation of separations that are inherent in social organising can be understood and which contribute to the denigration, discrimination and dismissal of particular forms of embodiment, including those of non-human Others. In order to explore the ethical implications of these entanglements, we draw upon fieldwork in a large UK-based not-for-profit organisation which seeks to provide support for disabled people through a diverse range of services. Examining entanglements in relation to the disabled body makes visible and problematises the multiple differences of embodiments and their various interrelationships with materiality.

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