چکیده:
Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of psycho-rehabilitation (Dohsa-hou) on improving the quality of life of 4-12 year old children with cerebral palsy.Methods: The present research is a semi-experimental study with a pre-test - post-test design, follow-up and control group. The statistical population fully consists of children with cerebral palsy in Yazd. 30 male patients were selected using a convenience sampling method and were divided into the experiment and control groups. Before beginning treatment, parents filled out the quality of life questionnaire and at the end of the treatment period in the post-test and follow-up phase the same assessment was done. The treatment period in the experiment group was 12 sessions (three sessions per week) and the follow-up phase was done 50 days after the test.Results: The results obtained from the analysis of covariance showed that psychological rehabilitation of children with cerebral palsy improves their quality of life and that this difference was persistent in the follow-up phase (P <0.001).Discussion: Since the rate of cerebral palsy is rising and the symptoms are wide, patients may have an increased need for rehabilitation in the future. Dohsa-hou as a psychological rehabilitation approach is an effective treatment to improve the quality of life of these patients.
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Keywords: cerebral palsy, quality of life, psychosocial rehabilitation (Dohsa-hou) Submitted: 12 March 2015 Accepted: 10 May 2015 Introduction Physical disabilities, along with sensory, perception, cognition, communication and behavioral problems, lead to decreased motor activities, difficulty in interacting with others, increased dependence on others, less motivation, weaker social skills and a decrease in skills and competencies (1-4).
Measuring instruments: quality of life questionnaire in children aged 4-12 with cerebral palsy (CP QOL-Child) includes subscales of social wellbeing and acceptance, participation and physical health, emotional well-being and self-esteem, functioning, pain and impact of disability, access to services and family health.
59 Table (3) indicates that the quality of life scores of the experiment group's post-test regarding the following variants has increased in comparison to the pre-test: social wellbeing and acceptance, participation and physical health, emotional wellbeing and self-esteem, functioning and family health.
30 29 Thus, according to the tables (5) and (6), it can be concluded that this psychosocial rehabilitation approach (Dohsa-hou) increases social wellbeing and acceptance, participation and physical health, emotional wellbeing and self-esteem, functioning, family health and reduces the amount of pain and dissatisfaction of disability in children with cerebral palsy.
02 Discussion The findings of this study showed that psychosocial rehabilitation (Dohsa-hou) improves the quality of life of children with cerebral palsy aged 4-12; also, the results remain after a two-month follow-up.