An assessment of rehabilitation approaches for persons with mental and physical disability in Morogoro Region
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Date
2008
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Sokoine University of Agriculture.
Abstract
More than half a billion persons are disabled as a result of mental, physical or sensory
impairment. Tanzania is estimated to have 3,346.900 people with disabilities, and the
majority of whom live in rural areas. Tanzania, like other countries, provides rehabilitation
as a right to the disabled, but there are very few institutions that provide rehabilitation in
Tanzania. Morogoro Region is one of the Regions in Tanzania that have a number of
people with physical and mental disabilities. A cross sectional study on comparative
assessment of Institutional Based Rehabilitation (IBR) and Community Based
Rehabilitation (CBR) approaches for persons with disabilities in Morogoro, in terms of
their suitability and effectiveness under Tanzanian conditions was done. The study
conducted in Morogoro Region, involved a total of 60 respondents, 30 respondents from
Institution Based Rehabilitation and 30 respondents from Community Based
Rehabilitation. The data were analysed using Statistical Package for Social Science
(SPSS) computer software program. It was found that there are different services provided
in different institutions in Morogoro. And the Effects of the services provided show that
67.7% have experienced changes and the remaining 33.3% had no changes due to staying
too far from the centre, poverty, and severe disability. Advantages of CBR are: -
interactions, familiarisation of the environments, get love from the parents, and develop
the mind. Advantages of IBR are to live independently, creating understanding, vocational
skills and avoiding sexual abuse. The study concludes that service provided to these
institutions that have different approaches have shown slight differences. Approaches for
both IRB and CBR need to be the same in terms of quality and quantity service provided,
because both rehabilitate persons with mental and physical disability to live independently
and provide skills to them according to their interests
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The Degree of Master of Arts in Rural Development
Keywords
Rehabilitation approaches, Physical disability, Mental disability, Morogoro Region