Gumienny Beata, Lew-Koralewicz Aneta
University of Rzeszów, Institute of Pedagogy, Rzeszów, Poland.
J Appl Res Intellect Disabil. 2025 Sep;38(5):e70119. doi: 10.1111/jar.70119.
Health awareness is an important factor in preventive health and healthy lifestyles of children and adolescents with an intellectual disability. The research objective is therefore to explore the perspective of people with intellectual disability regarding their health-related experiences and the meanings they assign to health.
Using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) as a methodological approach, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 students between the ages of 13 and 19.
Analysis identified four themes: understanding of health, perceptions of a healthy lifestyle, identifying health-at-risk situations, and experiencing illness. For them, health means feeling good, the lack of illness, and a healthy lifestyle. Participants can identify various health-threatening situations.
It is necessary to strengthen health education and health awareness in the population of people with intellectual disability, so as to enable them to increase the scope of their autonomy and self-determination with regard to protecting their own health.
健康意识是智障儿童和青少年预防保健及健康生活方式的一个重要因素。因此,本研究的目的是探讨智障人士对其健康相关经历的看法以及他们赋予健康的意义。
采用解释现象学分析(IPA)作为方法论,对14名年龄在13至19岁之间的学生进行了半结构化访谈。
分析确定了四个主题:对健康的理解、对健康生活方式的认知、识别健康风险状况以及患病经历。对他们来说,健康意味着感觉良好、没有疾病以及健康的生活方式。参与者能够识别各种威胁健康的情况。
有必要加强智障人群的健康教育和健康意识,以使他们在保护自身健康方面扩大自主和自我决定的范围。