Santos-Tavares Iolanda, Thorén-Jönsson Anna-Lisa
Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Rehabilitation, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden.
Scand J Occup Ther. 2013 Jan;20(1):9-20. doi: 10.3109/11038128.2012.660193. Epub 2012 Feb 22.
Sweden today may be described as multicultural. Those who are immigrants and have a disability are described as doubly vulnerable.
To explore and describe how immigrants with late effects of polio experience their daily occupations.
The experiences were explored by interviews with 12 immigrants with late effects of polio, from Eastern Africa. Data analysis was carried out according to grounded theory.
Experiences in daily occupations affected the participants' view of the future, which in turn was influenced by the participants' conception of occupational self. This was dependent on their participation in daily occupations. Five categories influenced their experiences: rootedness in society, estimation of others, treatment by others, belonging to social networks, and the process of change in life. The social environment played an important role in determining how the participants experienced their daily occupations.
The participants' experiences could not be seen in isolation; consequences of their disability and migration interact. The study showed that the complexity of daily life among immigrants with disability requires individual treatment and points to a need for consideration of differences in cultural background, including the therapist's own cultural lens.
如今的瑞典可以说是多元文化的。那些既是移民又有残疾的人被描述为双重弱势群体。
探讨并描述患有小儿麻痹后遗症的移民如何体验他们的日常活动。
通过对12名来自东非、患有小儿麻痹后遗症的移民进行访谈来探究他们的经历。数据分析依据扎根理论进行。
日常活动中的经历影响了参与者对未来的看法，而这又反过来受到参与者职业自我概念的影响。这取决于他们对日常活动的参与。五个类别影响了他们的经历：融入社会、他人的评价、他人的对待、属于社交网络以及生活中的变化过程。社会环境在决定参与者如何体验他们的日常活动方面起着重要作用。
不能孤立地看待参与者的经历；他们残疾和移民的后果相互作用。该研究表明，残疾移民日常生活的复杂性需要个性化治疗，并指出需要考虑文化背景的差异，包括治疗师自身的文化视角。
