Home based training: Main strategy of
community based rehabilitation in Iran

Payman Salamati¹, Farid Abolhassani², Batoul Shariati³,
Mohammad Kamali⁴, Seyed Mehdi Alehossein⁵

ABSTRACT

Objective: Study of effectiveness of "home based training" in community based rehabilitation program on disabled people, who were trained and evaluated at the end of the course, under supervision of 21 pilot health and medical networks.

Methodology: In a cross-sectional study, 614 disabled people who had participated in "home based training" were selected with stratified random sampling method. They were evaluated according to function progress level variables by community based rehabilitation program experts. Age groups, sex, disability groups, employment state and teacher’s relation variables were studied from their files and recording data. Statistical analysis was performed with Chi-square test.

Results: There was a relationship between age group and disability group with functional progress level (P value =0.014 & P value <0.001). Low age groups, visual disabled group, epileptic patients and individuals with learning disability had the best results. High age groups, mixed age disability group and individuals with verbal and hearing problems had the least favorable results. There was a relationship between teacher’s relation with progress or no progress state (P value = 0.038). Individuals that were teachers had the best results and individuals with teachers other than first or second relation or health worker had the least favorable results.

Conclusion: Home based training in community based rehabilitation program is an effective method for improving the functions of disabled people in some selected groups.

KEY WORDS: Community based rehabilitation, Community health services, Home based training, Rehabilitation.

Pak J Med Sci    April - June 2009 (Part-II)    Vol. 25 No. 3    462-467

How to cite this article:

Salamati P, Abolhassani F, Shariati B, Kamali M, Alehossein SM. Home based training: main strategy of community based rehabilitation in Iran. Pak J Med Sci 2009;25(3): 462-467.

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1. Payman Salamati,
Associate Professor of Community Medicine,
2. Farid Abolhassani,
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine,
3. Batoul Shariati,
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology,
University of British Columbia,
4. Mohammad Kamali,
Assistant Professor of Health Training,
Iran University of Medical Sciences,
5. Seyed Mehdi Alehossein,
Assistant professor of Radiology,
1,2,5: Tehran University of Medical Sciences,
Tehran – Iran.

Correspondence

Payman Salamati,
Bahrami Children’s Hospital,
Shahid Kiaee Street, Damavand Avenue,
Tehran, Iran.
E-mail: psalamati@tums.ac.ir

* Received for Publication: November 6, 2008
* Revision Received: December 11, 2008
* Revision Accepted: May 12, 2009

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