Jamwal Rebecca, Enticott Joanne, Farnworth Louise, Winkler Di, Callaway Libby
Department of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, School of Primary Health Care, Monash University - Peninsula Campus, Frankston, Victoria, Australia.
Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre, Austin Health, Kew, Victoria Australia.
Disabil Rehabil Assist Technol. 2020 Jan;15(1):101-108. doi: 10.1080/17483107.2018.1534998. Epub 2019 Jan 21.
: This study aimed to examine use of electronic assistive technology for social networking by people with disability living in shared supported accommodation (SSA), and compare participants' Electronic Social Networking (ESN) integration with Australian ESN normative data.: Telephone surveys and the ESN subscale of the Community Integration Questionnaire-Revised (CIQ-R) were administered with SSA managers. Surveys gathered demographic data, and data on Internet access, technology use and ESN integration, of 91 people with disability who were identified technology users and living in SSA. Participant ESN data were then matched with existing CIQ-R ESN normative data ( = 359). Relative risk of reduced ESN integration was calculated.: This study identified that, despite access to mainstream technologies, people with disability living in SSA experience low ESN integration, and use ESN for social contact less than other Australians. This group were 210% more likely to report reduced ESN integration than the matched normative sample when key demographic variables were held constant.: Factors related to disability, including high care and support needs and greater time spent completing essential activities of daily living (such as personal care), may explain the low electronic social networking integration for people with disability living in SSA identified in this study. Further research that examines factors that influence ESN access and use following disability is necessary to inform practice to bridge the digital divide that exists between this group and other Australians.
本研究旨在调查居住在共享支持性住所（SSA）的残疾人使用电子辅助技术进行社交网络的情况，并将参与者的电子社交网络（ESN）融入情况与澳大利亚ESN规范数据进行比较。对SSA管理人员进行了电话调查，并使用了修订后的社区融入问卷（CIQ-R）中的ESN子量表。调查收集了91名被确定为技术使用者且居住在SSA的残疾人的人口统计学数据、互联网接入、技术使用和ESN融入情况的数据。然后将参与者的ESN数据与现有的CIQ-R ESN规范数据（n = 359）进行匹配。计算了ESN融入程度降低的相对风险。本研究发现，尽管能够使用主流技术，但居住在SSA的残疾人的ESN融入程度较低，且使用ESN进行社交联系的频率低于其他澳大利亚人。当关键人口统计学变量保持不变时，与匹配的规范样本相比，该群体报告ESN融入程度降低的可能性高出210%。与残疾相关的因素，包括高护理和支持需求以及在完成日常生活基本活动（如个人护理）上花费的时间更多，可能解释了本研究中居住在SSA的残疾人电子社交网络融入程度较低的原因。有必要进行进一步的研究，以调查残疾后影响ESN接入和使用的因素，为弥合该群体与其他澳大利亚人之间存在的数字鸿沟的实践提供信息。
