Ewa Puszczałowska-Lizis, Patrycja Birek, Agnieszka Stanuch-Omorczyk

E. Puszczałowska-Lizis, P. Birek, A. Stanuch-Omorczyk – The degree of adaptation of the urban infrastructure of Rzeszów to the needs of people with disabilities in the opinion of respondents with mobility dysfunction in a wheelchair. Fizjoterapia Polska 2019; 19(3); 68-81

Abstract
Introduction. Assistance to a person with a disability should be directed both at improving their functional status as well as at the adaptation of the living space. The aim of the study was to analyze the opinion of people with mobility disabilities on the accessibility of buildings and public places in the city of Rzeszów.
Material and methods. A total of 104 residents of Rzeszów, including 44 females and 60 males with mobility dysfunctions in a wheelchair, were surveyed using a diagnostic survey method. The research tool was a questionnaire. The data were analyzed based on the Mann Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis test, and then subjected to Dunn posthoc test with Bonferroni adjustment.
Results. Statistically significant differences in the subjective assessment of the degree of adaptation of the category of buildings and public places to the needs of people with disabilities were found (p = 0.029). People with different levels of education had different opinions about adaptation of shopping malls (p = 0.032) and restaurants and pubs (p = 0.005).
Conclusions. The respondents considered cultural and entertainment facilities to be the best adapted, followed by public institutions, and public transport was rated the lowest. People with secondary education rated the adaptation of shopping malls, restaurants and pubs the best, while the respondents with vocational education rated the availability of shopping malls better than people with secondary education; people with higher education assessed the adaptation of restaurants and pubs better than people with vocational education.

Key words:
disabled, social activity, barriers

 

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