Community-Based Rehabilitation: Does it change community attitudes towards people with disability?
- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Disability and Rehabilitation
- Vol. 15 (4) , 179-183
- https://doi.org/10.3109/09638289309166009
Abstract
To achieve the goal of 'Health for All by the Year 2000' the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted an approach to rehabilitation described as community-based rehabilitation (CBR). A major objective of CBR is to develop positive community attitudes towards people with disabilities. To determine whether this objective can be achieved, post hoc measurement of attitudes towards people with disabilities was carried out in a community in which CBR had been established and in a control community. It is shown that both groups exhibited neutral attitudes. The community exposed to CBR obtained a mean attitude score significantly (p < 0.001) closer to the positive end of the scale than did the control community. It is concluded that communities in which CBR is being carried out develop more favourable attitudes towards people with disabilities than do those in which no such programme has been implemented.Keywords
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