Yeshanew Yisma Tsige, Xu Tianxi, Yuan Wei
Department of Special Education, School of Education, Central China Normal University, 152 Luoyu Ave., Wuhan 430079, China.
Healthcare (Basel). 2023 Feb 17;11(4):605. doi: 10.3390/healthcare11040605.
Social participation is a vital part of life and has multifaceted positive outcomes on personal health and wellbeing. Social participation or the lack thereof might have more profound psychological impacts on individuals in a collectivist culture than its counterpart. The current study explored personal and environmental barriers that have hindered the effective social participation of secondary students with visual impairments. Exploration addressed various activities in and outside school settings in Ethiopia and discussed findings in relation to the prevailing cultural orientation. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted to gather qualitative data on barriers to social participation of 17 secondary students with visual impairments in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The qualitative data were analysed thematically, yielding four major themes and identifying twenty sub-themes that limited the social participation of students with visual impairments, such as personal, attitudinal, sociocultural, and practical barriers. The study showed a range of barriers that participants experienced related to social participation, the criticality of cultural orientation in providing context to understand the impacts of social participation, and the need for future research in the area.
社会参与是生活的重要组成部分，对个人健康和幸福有着多方面的积极影响。与个人主义文化相比，社会参与或缺乏社会参与可能会对集体主义文化中的个人产生更深远的心理影响。本研究探讨了阻碍视障中学生有效社会参与的个人和环境障碍。研究涉及埃塞俄比亚校内外的各种活动，并结合当地盛行的文化取向讨论了研究结果。通过深入的半结构化访谈，收集了关于埃塞俄比亚亚的斯亚贝巴17名视障中学生社会参与障碍的定性数据。对定性数据进行了主题分析，得出了四个主要主题，并确定了20个子主题，这些主题限制了视障学生的社会参与，如个人、态度、社会文化和实际障碍。研究表明，参与者在社会参与方面遇到了一系列障碍，文化取向在理解社会参与影响方面的重要性，以及该领域未来研究的必要性。
