Data will be made available upon request when the project has been finalized. This RAD survey has estimated the prevalence of disability at 6.8 (95 % CI: 5.9, 7.9) in Quezon City and 13.6 % (95 % CI: 11.4, 16.2) in Ligao City. World report on disability. Given the current global agenda for disability inclusion, it is crucial to increase understanding of the situation of people with disabilities in the Philippines. While psychological distress was not commonly identified in isolation, it was the most commonly reported difficulty in both locations. endobj
Excluding psychological distress, the most commonly reported difficulties with functioning were difficulty using hands and fingers (2.1, 95 % CI: 1.5, 2.7), remembering (2.0, 95 % CI: 1.5, 2.7), and concentrating (1.8 %, 95 % CI: 1.3, 2.5) in Quezon City. Disability and poverty in developing countries: a multidimensional study. Downloadable! Philippines Statistics Authority. PubMed While this could potentially affect the generalizability of the findings, the impact may be insignificant because the response rate was good in both areas. 2010. A sample size of 3,010 was required to estimate disability prevalence with 95 % confidence level, 20 sampling error, a design effect of 1.5, a non-response rate of 10, and a conservative estimate of prevalence of disability at 5 %. Disability is more prevalent among older respondents and those who had little or no education. The individual questionnaire comprises four sections: 1) demographics, 2) self-assessment of functioning, 3) well-being, and 4) access to the community. Trani J-F, Browne J, Kett M, Bah O, Morlai T, Bailey N, et al. Having a disability and negative family attitudes were reported as barriers for people with disabilities participating in work, community meetings, religious activities, and social activities. 2014;14:1. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-14-900. 2012. https://psa.gov.ph/content/age-and-sex-structure-philippine-population-facts-2010-census. <>
9994 – Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2010 • OSCA Facebook Page (please help … Phase one involved the collection of quantitative and qualitative data to understand the lived experience of people with disabilities in the Philippines. This included a cross-sectional household survey using the Rapid Assessment of Disability (RAD), in two districts of the Philippines. Cookies policy. Ethics approvals were obtained from the University of Melbourne Human Research Ethics Committee, Australia (ethics ID 1339640) and the De La Salle University Ethics Committee, Philippines. 2013;24(3):37–60. However, having a disability and negative family attitudes were reported as barriers for people with disabilities participating in work, community meetings, religious activities, and social activities suggesting stigma associated with disability in these communities. endobj
This approach not only builds their capacity to conduct research, but demonstrates their capacity within their communities. Persons with Disability in the Philippines (Results from the 2010 Census). Manage cookies/Do not sell my data we use in the preference centre. 10 Situation Analysis of Children in the Philippines Overview of the Philippines Population The Philippines is the twelfth most populated country in the world. In many contexts, people with disabilities are more likely to experience poverty, yet are often not appropriately considered or included in development programs [2–5]. Filmer D, Pritchett LH. Asset index was used as a proxy indicator for wealth status using principal components analysis on the data from the household questionnaire [16]. 4 0 obj
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Both univariate and multivariate (binary logistic regression) analyses were undertaken to assess the associations between sociodemographic characteristics and prevalence of disability. Responding to the needs and priorities of people with disabilities, for example, requires context-specific information on the lived experience of disability and how this intersects with access to essential life domains, such as health, education, employment, and social inclusion. It shall encourage learning disabled persons. In this survey, the sample from Quezon City was younger and had higher levels of education compared to the sample in Ligao City. There is growing recognition of the need for disability-disaggregated data to increase understanding of the prevalence of disability and, equally importantly from a development programming perspective, to support the design, implementation, and monitoring of effective, inclusive development programs [1]. Google Scholar. UN DESA. Disability, CBR & Inclusive Development. Disability was reported as a specific barrier by people with disabilities for participating in work, community meetings, and religious activities. The RAD questionnaire was used in this study. <>
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Psychological distress was the most commonly reported condition in both locations, although it was often reported with a co-morbid condition related to sensory, physical, cognitive, and communication difficulties. Marella M, Busija L, Islam A, Devine A, Fotis K, Baker S, et al. The well-being scores were significantly lower for people with disabilities (mean ± SD: 57.3 ± 14.6) compared to people without disability (mean ± SD: 66.1 ± 14.1), p < 0.001. Supervised field practice sessions were conducted as part of the training. The survey was validated in Bangladesh and Fiji [15]. However, Loeb and Trani reported that disability and poverty as estimated using household asset index were not associated in Afghanistan and Zambia possibly because the majority of families surveyed in the two countries were poor [25]. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 2011. However, RAD also identifies respondents with psychological distress [5]. International recognition that people with disabilities were excluded from the Millennium Development Goals has led to better inclusion of people with disabilities in the recently agreed Global Goals for Sustainable Development (SDGs) 2015–2030. However, the majority of respondents (65 % in Quezon City and 78 % in Ligao City) with psychological distress also had co-morbid conditions related to sensory, physical, cognitive, and communication functional limitations. The study findings may not be generalized beyond the District 2 of Quezon City and Ligao City. For ease of interpretation the scores were rescaled to range from 0 to 100, where a high score represented better well-being. People with and without disability were recruited as data collectors and were trained for a week on disability inclusion, study design, recruitment of participants, administration of the RAD questionnaire, ethics in research, collecting survey data, data storage, and referral mechanisms for participants. disability can also be defined as any form of impairment that negatively affects the ability of a person to function by and large. View Disability Studies Research Papers on Academia.edu for free. This research paper is made possible through the help and support from many people, But, if a person develops the habit of drinking for at least three bottles of beers every night, and his or her minimum wage is $5 a day, that would mean that spending 1% a day on beer is already 20% of his earned money (Valbuena, 2013). As demonstrated in the previous RAD survey in Bangladesh, prevalence estimates with RAD are comparable to the WG short set questions that are most widely used in Censuses. 6 0 obj
However, earlier reports note that the quality of employment of PWDs still needs improvement. Poverty and disability: A survey of the literature. The prevalence of disability was associated with age and no schooling, but not associated with poverty. People with disabilities also experienced significant participation restrictions compared to people without disability. Philippines 1003 Telephone No. These factors contribute to Filipino-American perspectives on disability and rehabilitation. The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Responses to the level of access to different domains of community were dichotomized with the positive response category ‘as much as needed’ coded as ‘met need’ and the three negative response categories as ‘unmet need’ (Table 4). A thesis statement in an essay is a sentence that explicitly identifies the purpose of the paper or previews its main ideas. Children with special needs (CWSN) experience disability in various areas. The first item asks for the level of access to services with responses recorded on a 4-point Likert scale (‘as much as needed’ to ‘not at all’), with an additional category ‘had not needed the services.’ The second item asks for barriers to accessing services using open-ended questions. The self-assessment of functioning section includes items related to functioning in eight domains: vision, hearing, communication, mobility, gross and fine motor, cognitive, appearance, and psychological distress. <>
Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in the Phils. 2015. Washington: International Food Policy Research Institute; 2005. The well-being section includes items such as good health, making friends, being safe in daily life, and taking care of one’s self, where the frequency of experiencing the situation was reported on a 4-point Likert scale ranging from ‘never’ to ‘all of the time.’ The last section on access to the community is comprised of domains related to health, education, work, social, legal, religious, rehabilitation, and other services. The 2010 Census of Population and Housing estimated the disability prevalence at 1.6 % [10] using questions based on the short set of the Washington Group on Disability Statistics (WG) questionnaire [18]. Household members and neighbors reported that many non-responders away from the home during the day were at work. In Quezon City, a total of 2,610 people were enumerated, of whom 2,139 (82.0 %) participated in the survey and 471 (18.0 %) were either unavailable or declined to participate in the study. In Ligao City, seeing (4.9, 95 % CI: 3.4, 6.9), concentrating (4.2, 95 % CI: 2.8, 6.1), and remembering (3.7 %, 95 % CI: 2.5, 5.5) were the most commonly reported functional limitations. BMC Public Health. Persons with disability (PWDs) are among the vulnerable groups in the country that need utmost attention from the government. The prevalence of disability among adults in District 2 of Quezon City and in Ligao City is higher than the estimated national prevalence of disability derived from the 2010 Philippines census. There are numerous and wide-ranging estimates of the prevalence of disability in the Philippines, ranging from 1.6 as estimated in the 2010 Census of Population and Housing [10], to 28.2 % according to the World Report on Disability [1]. Barriers for participation reported by cases and controls were similar across most domains because the matched respondents belonged to communities that were poorly resourced. Particularly, it was conducted in partnership with disabled people’s organizations and people with disabilities were part of the data collection team in both sites. The reference groups were 18–24 years, male, fifth quintile, college/technical education. The prevalence of psychological distress alone (i.e., after excluding co-morbid functional limitations) was 0.9 (95 % CI: 0.5, 1.3) in Quezon City and 1.3 % (95 % CI: 0.6, 2.4) in Ligao City. x��UMo�0���Q*E�$��k� C�P��Nc�s2�����|tvb9d>>�"a4����t�u��n'c�
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Disability is also associated with lower well-being and reduced participation across a number of domains of community life. Although this survey had a good response rate, the majority of non-responders, particularly in Quezon City, were men either because they were away for work or because they did not want to participate in the survey. Findings are relevant to government and other national agencies seeking to support universal access to a range of services, and more specifically, to respond to the needs of people with disabilities in the Philippines. 2015;37(12):1082–9. There is a need for promoting counseling services and other support programs for people with psychosocial disability but also for those with other types of disability. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Filmer D. Disability, poverty, and schooling in developing countries: results from 14 household surveys. endobj
A thesis abstract should consist of 350 words or less including the heading. They were also cognitively tested on a convenience sample of 14 participants with different disabilities to ensure a range of respondents understood the questions as intended and that their responses accurately reflected what was being asked. Multivariate logistic and linear regression analyses were undertaken to identify differences in quality of life and access to the community between cases and controls. A person with a cognitive disability has greater difficulty with one or more types of mental tasks than the average person. This finding is in contradiction with the current understanding of the relationship between poverty and disability [1, 3, 23, 24]. PubMed Google Scholar. In accordance with local practice in the Philippines, relevant barangay kapitans (equivalent to head of a village or ward) were informed about the study and their endorsement was sought to facilitate introduction into the community. Understanding these factors is particularly important to inform the development of interventions in the latter phases of W-DARE. persons. A page and one-half is approximately 350 words.) <>/XObject<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 720 540] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>>
Jandayan M, Figueroa SR, Canales D. Monitoring the human rights of persons with disabilities: Preliminary report - Philippines. In the contemporary times the phenomena does not only refer to the above mentioned but also the study has confirmed that disability has more to … Disability is also associated with lower well-being and reduced participation across a number of domains of community life. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This survey found that people with disabilities in the sample have poorer well-being and reduced access to services related to health, work, rehabilitation, education, government social welfare, and disaster management than people without disability. Population Health Metrics Employment of persons with disabilities (PWDs) in the Philippines: The case of Metro Manila and Rosario, Batangas Christian D. Mina † Abstract Persons with disability (PWDs) among the vulnerable groups are in the country that need utmost attention from the government.This is the perhaps the reason why the institutional Eide A, Loeb M. Living conditions among people with activity limitations in Zambia: a national representative study. In some of the particularly disadvantaged, urban areas non-responders could not be followed up by the field staff after working hours for security reasons. However, learners are in this study constrict to children at primary school. People with disabilities generally had lower access to all domains in the community compared to people without disability. A cross-sectional population-based survey was conducted in District 2 in Quezon City (a densely populated, urban district) and in Ligao City, Albay (a predominantly rural district) in the Philippines between December 2013 and January 2014. The input of Disabled People’s Organizations into our research approach and the inclusion of people with disabilities in the survey team has increased the capacity of researchers with disability in the Philippines, and increased engagement between people with disabilities and policymakers, service providers, and government representatives at all levels. There were also a number of strengths to this study. PubMed All authors contributed to the writing of the manuscript’s final version. 10 0 obj
Psychological distress was the most commonly reported difficulty in the two samples: 2.5 (95 % CI: 1.9, 3.2) in Quezon City and 5.3 % (95 % CI: 3.8, 7.2) in Ligao City (Fig. BMC Public Health. In Ligao City, a total of 823 people were enumerated, of whom 765 (93.0 %) participated in the survey and 58 (7.0 %) were either unavailable or declined to participate in the study. 5 0 obj
Mental health and development: targeting people with mental health conditions as a vulnerable group. World Dev. Trani J-F, Bakhshi P, Myer Tlapek S, Lopez D, Gall F. Disability and Poverty in Morocco and Tunisia: A Multidimensional Approach. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. in the Philippines, exposure to – and information about – persons with disabilities are minimal, and rehabilitation services are very limited. doi:10.5463/DCID.v24i3.174. The mean ± SD age of participants was 38.9 ± 14.3 years in Quezon City and 41.9 ± 16.5 years in Ligao City, and women were over-represented in both locations. disability, i.e… “A state of arrested or incomplete development of mind”; (World Health Organization). Individuals were ranked according to the asset index of the household in which they resided. (Begin the abstract here, typewritten and double-spaced. This study did not include children because the focus of W-DARE is adults and particularly women. However, the reader is cautioned not to generalize the information that follows to all Filipinos in World Bank. Broken Framing: An Assessment on the News Coverage of Disabilities by the Philippine Daily Inquirer and the Philippine Star from 2010 – 2012, Unpublished Undergraduate Thesis, University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication. Marella M, Huq NL, Devine A, Baker S, Quaiyum MA, Keeffe JE. $j�i)WU�m��4%j�~ The similarity of their findings to results obtained using the RAD may be because both studies used questions about specific activity limitations. This includes generating reliable estimates on the prevalence of disability and data about the participation of people with disabilities in the community. This study provides reliable estimates of prevalence of disability, including measures of psychosocial distress and well-being, and allows for the understanding of the barriers to participation in community life experienced by people with disabilities in both areas. Households within clusters were selected through compact segment sampling where each cluster was divided into clearly demarcated segments of equal population of about 50 people aged 18 years and above. Prevalence and correlates of disability in Bogra district of Bangladesh using the Rapid Assessment of Disability survey. www.nda.ie 6 1.1. Evidence from Afghanistan and Zambia. The RAD survey was developed to measure different domains of disability described in the International Classification of Functioning and Disability (ICF) framework [14, 15]. This study has also generated considerable context-specific data, which the W-DARE project have used to inform the design of interventions to increase access to specific domains of community life for people with disabilities in Quezon City and Ligao City. Philippines Statistics Authority. xv Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction The Person with Disability or most commonly called as PWD is a minority group of individuals who experience oppression by means of physical and/or psychological abnormalities that they have received either from heredity or at birth. Table 1 summarizes the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the sample from the two locations. The matching of cases and controls was not complete, particularly among those aged 55 years and over, and therefore analyses were adjusted by the matching variables of age and sex. World Health Organization. It does, however, highlight the need to ensure health and rehabilitation services are available in rural areas, and have the capacity and systems in place to respond to the needs of older people who are more likely to have disability. W-DARE: a three-year program of participatory action research to improve the sexual and reproductive health of women with disabilities in the Philippines. https://psa.gov.ph/content/age-and-sex-structure-philippine-population-facts-2010-census, https://psa.gov.ph/content/persons-disability-philippines-results-2010-census, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12963-016-0096-y. The difference persisted after adjusting for age and sex. A disability is a condition that causes a person to be considered disabled. 1978;43:561–73. Rasch analysis was used to derive person measures for the well-being section. endobj
This is an important finding as psychosocial disability and psychological distress among people with other forms of disability are rarely measured and are therefore not addressed in national efforts to increase disability inclusion in low- and middle-income countries. The State shall take into consideration the special requirements of disabled persons in the formulation of educational policies and programs. As indicated earlier, the non-respondents are less likely to have a disability as the majority of them were away for work. Non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and diabetes are on the rise and are a major cause of mortality and morbidity in the Philippines [9]. The response categories are ‘none,’ ‘some of the time,’ ‘most of the time,’ and ‘all of the time.’ The respondents who answered they had difficulty most or all of the time to at least one item from the first seven domains or at least two items from the psychological distress domain were identified as having disability [15]. Estimating wealth effects without expenditure data - Or tears: An application to educational enrollments in states of India. 2012;24(S1):S19–52. This is perhaps the reason why the institutional and legal environment has been made favorable to this particular group, especially in the area of employment. In todays society people with disablities have to overcome many obstacles in their lives that their disability brings them in which they ( … World Health Organization. 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