Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong.
Mental Health Research Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Oct 10;19(19):12976. doi: 10.3390/ijerph191912976.
This study explored the impacts of five types of community support services (i.e., center-based care, home-based care, respite care, caregiver assistance, and financial subsidies) on self-efficacy for continuous community living among individuals with disabilities and caregivers.
Cross-sectional.
The sample consisted of a group of individuals with disabilities ( = 948) and a group of caregivers ( = 522). A mixed ANOVA was applied to explore the differences in the perceived importance of improvements to community support services between the groups. Logistic regression analyses were conducted to examine the perceived importance of improvements to types of community support services for self-efficacy for continuous community living.
Caregivers perceived higher levels of importance for improvements to community support services than individuals with disabilities. Both groups reported that financial subsidies were the most important area for improvement. The greater importance of improvements to financial subsidies reported by caregivers predicted greater odds for self-efficacy for continuous community living. The greater importance of improvements to center-based services reported by individuals with disabilities predicted greater odds for self-efficacy for continuous community living.
The findings suggested that financial subsidies for caregivers and center-based services for individuals with disabilities could improve self-efficacy for continuous community living.
本研究探讨了五种类型的社区支持服务（即中心照顾、家庭照顾、暂托照顾、照顾者援助和财政补贴）对残疾人和照顾者持续社区生活自我效能感的影响。
横断面研究。
样本由一组残疾个体（n=948）和一组照顾者（n=522）组成。采用混合方差分析探讨两组之间对社区支持服务改进的感知重要性的差异。进行逻辑回归分析，以检验对持续社区生活自我效能感的社区支持服务类型的改进的感知重要性。
照顾者认为社区支持服务的改进比残疾个体更重要。两组都报告说，财政补贴是最需要改进的领域。照顾者报告的对财政补贴改进的更高重要性预测了对持续社区生活自我效能感的更大可能性。残疾个体报告的对中心服务改进的更高重要性预测了对持续社区生活自我效能感的更大可能性。
研究结果表明，为照顾者提供财政补贴和为残疾个体提供中心服务可以提高持续社区生活的自我效能感。
