•  
  •  
 

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Translated Title

職業災害復健研究－中華民國職業災害復健資源調查

Abstract

Work-related injuries will cause injured worker's role dysfunction, and result in family economic crisis and national productivity loss. The purposes of this research are to investigate the resources of rehabilitation medicine and vocational rehabilitation in Taiwan.One hundred and fifty-six rehabilitation facilities and 118 occupational therapy units received two different questionnaires to investigate the services they provided. The SPSS for WINDOWS was used to describe and analyze the data. The information of non-medical rehabilitational facilities was collected by phone calls. The returning rate was 44.23% from rehabilitation facilities and was near 100% from Occupational therapy units. The findings from the investigation of rehabilitation and occupational therapy units were that there was only one facility (Veterans General Hospital) provided job/work capacity evaluation and only 15.9% units from the 69 respondents realized the aims of vocational rehabilitation and work hardening program. It revealed that vocational rehabilitation facility was extremely inadequate and most of the rehabilitation team members were lack of knowledge and skills about vocational rehabilitation. Also the manpower of vocational rehabilitation is insufficient.

Language

Traditional Chinese

First Page

138

Last Page

153

Download

Share

COinS