Disabled person: construction of concept by this population

• Autor(a) principal: Pagliuca, Lorita Marlena Freitag
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Oliveira, Paula Marciana Pinheiro de, Mariano, Monaliza Ribeiro, Silva, Jacqueline Mota da, Almeida, Paulo Cesar de, Oliveira, Giselly Oseni Barbosa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Rev Rene (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufc.br/rene/article/view/2836
• topic: Disabled Persons; Concept Formation; Mobility Limitation; Visually Impaired Persons; Persons with Hearing Impairments.

Objective: to build the concept of disabled person. Methods: study of analysis of concept using the phases field work and statistical analysis with 120 individuals divided into three groups of 40 people with hearing, visual and motor disability. Results: there was predomination of men (68%), 18-29 years old (55%), with superior education (35%) and married/common-law married (75%). The attribute accepted was person with limitation and still able to perform activity, with a difference between groups (p = 0.018); the keyword accepted was limitation (p = 0.001); the expression was disabled person, with intergroup difference (p = 0.013). Concept of choice by group was deaf (97.51%); blind (45%) and person with visual disability (45%) and; person with physical disability (27.5%). Conclusion: attributes, keywords used in the literature and public policy were not accepted. They prefer to be called deaf; blind or visually impaired; They reject people with motor disability and wheelchair user.