Examination of the quality of life according to the physical activity status of parents who have disabled individual Engelli bireye sahip ebeveynlerin fiziksel aktivite durumlarına göre yaşam kalitelerinin incelenmesi

In this research it was aimed to examine of the quality of life according to physical activity status of parents who have disabled individual. In the study using the descriptive survey model, convenience sampling was used for the creation of the sample. The parents of 164 disabled individuals(132 mother; =40,5±8,90) ve 32 father; =46,21±9,74) who attended to various special education institutions in Sakarya province participated in the research. The children of the participating families have autism, mental, visual, hearing and physical disabilities. In this study, a Family Information Form, which was prepared by the researcher, was used to reach the demographic informations of parents. With the aim of measuring the quality of life in parents, World Health Organization Quality of Life-Bref Form (WHOQOL-BREF), which was adopted to Turkish by Eser and his friends (1999) and for measuring the level of physical activity of parents, International Physical Activity Questionnaire-Short Form (IPAQ), which was adoped to Turkish by Ozturk (2005) were used in the study. All data were collected by face-to-face interview technique. WHOQOL-BREF scale consists of 5 sub-dimensions including the physical area, psychological area, social area, environmental area and environmental TR area created by adding a question in Turkish adaptation and 27 questions. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient of physical area subscale is . 77. , psychological area subscale is . 71, social area is . 61, environmental area is . 81 and environmental area Turkey is . 78. IPAQ self-administered 'last 7 days' short form was used in this study. The form provides information on time spent on walking, moderate-severe and violent activities. The calculation of the total score of the short form is based on the sum of time (minutes) and frequency (days) (Ozturk, 2005). After the descriptive statistical processes had been applied in the analysis of datas, an independent t-test and chi-square test to detect from which groups the differences between the groups originate. Data was evaluated by using SPSS for Windows 15 software. As a result, the fact that the quality of life parents who have disabled individual and doing sport was found to be at a higher level of those who have individual but not doing sport. In addition to this doing sport was detected to increase the quality of life parents who have a disabled individual. As a result, it is thought that the parents of physically active parents have higher quality of life and physical activity levels and as a result they will provide a better and healthier life for their children.Their families are thought to be the first step in raising awareness and guiding them in order to enable them to live as healthy families and to raise healthy individuals. Ozet Bu arastirmada, engelli bireye sahip ebeveynlerin fiziksel aktivite durumlarina gore yasam kalitelerinin incelenmesi amaclanmistir. Tarama modeli kullanilan calismada, orneklemin olusturulmasinda kolayda ornekleme yonteminden yararlanilmistir. Arastirmaya Sakarya ilinde cesitli ozel egitim kurumlarina devam eden 164 engelli bireyin ebeveynleri (132 anne ve 32 baba) katilmistir. Calismaya katilan ailelerin cocuklari otizm, zihinsel, gorme, isitme, bedensel engele sahiptirler. Kisilerin demografik bilgilerine ulasma amacli arastirmaci tarafindan hazirlanan aile bilgi formu, ebeveynlerin yasam kalitesini olcmeye yonelik Eser vd. ’nin (1999) Turkce’ye uyarladigi Dunya Saglik Orgutu Yasam Kalitesi Olcegi-Kisa Formu (WHOQOL-BREF) ve ebeveynlerin fiziksel aktivite duzeylerini olcmek icin Ozturk’un (2005) Turkce’ye uyarladigi Uluslararasi Fiziksel Aktivite Anketi-Kisa Form (IPAQ) kullanilmistir. Tum veriler yuz yuze gorusme teknigi ile toplanmistir. WHOQOL-BREF olcegi bedensel alan, ruhsal alan, sosyal alan, cevresel alan ve Turkce’ye uyarlamada bir sorunun eklenmesiyle olusturulan cevresel TR alan olmak uzere toplam 5 alt boyuttan ve 27 sorudan olusmaktadir. Alt boyutlara ait ic tutarlilik katsayilari sirasiyla, . 77, . 71, . 61, . 81, . 78 olarak tespit edilmistir. IPAQ olcegi yurume, orta-siddetli ve siddetli aktivitelerde harcanan zaman hakkinda bilgi vermektedir ve skorunun hesaplanmasi sure (dakika) ve frekans (gun) toplamindan yapilmaktadir. Elde edilen verilerin analizinde betimsel istatistiksel islemler uygulandiktan sonra, degiskenler arasi farkliliklari olcmek amaciyla independent samples t-test ve ki-kare testi yapilmistir. Veriler SPSS 15.0 programinda degerlendirilmis ve anlamlilik duzeyi olarak 0.05 kullanilmistir. Analiz sonuclari incelendiginde, fiziksel aktivite yapan engelli bireye sahip ebeveynlerin bedensel alan haric tum alanlarinin ve fiziksel aktivite duzeylerinin fiziksel aktivite yapmayanlardan yuksek oldugu bulunmustur. Dolayisiyla fiziksel aktivitenin ruhsal, sosyal, cevresel yasam kalitesini olumlu yonde etkiledigi ve fiziksel aktivitenin engelli bireye sahip ebeveynlerin yasam kalitesini yukselttigi soylenebilir. Sonuc olarak, fiziksel aktivite yapan ebeveynlerin yasam kalitelerinin ve fiziksel aktivite duzeylerinin daha yuksek oldugu buna bagli olarak da cocuklari icin daha guzel ve saglikli bir yasam sunabilme imkânlari olacagi dusunulmektedir. Aileleri bu konuda bilinclendirmek ve yonlendirmek onlarin daha saglikli aileler olarak yasamasina ve saglikli bireyler yetistirmesine imkân saglamak icin atilmasi gereken ilk adim olarak dusunulmektedir.