Quality of life of disability person in Suphanburi Province

Abstract

This descriptive research study aimed to study the quality of life of people with disabilities in Suphanburi province. The sample size was 395 disabled people that were selected from all types of disabled people in 10 districts of Suphanburi province. The instrument for data collection was the questionnaire consisted of general information and the World Health Organization, Quality of Life generic questionnaire-brief in Thai version (WHOQOL-BREF-THAI) (WHO, 1993). Descriptive analysis was applied in this study such as frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation.

The result showed that the majority of sample were male (56.2%) and the average age was 50.69 years. Most of them graduated at primary school level (56.2%) and about half of them were single (46.3%). Disabled people mostly have no career (94.7%) and lived with the assistants (50.1%). Basically, they stayed with a family (94.4%) in the rural area (74.4%). In general, they acquired disabilities later in life (65.3%) and the accessibility to health care was high (69.4%). The quality of life among them was at the moderate level in 4 domains (means score 83.26 13.35) : physical health, psychological health, social relation and environment. ( means score 21.53 4.36, 19.23  3.65, 10.46 c2.23 and 26.60 4.22 respectively. People with hearing disability had the highest score (means score 86.41) and the quality of life among them was significantly different (p=0.01).