DOI: 10.5279/dk-sa-dda-1379
title: Psykisk handicappede, 1972
title: Mentally Deficient Persons, 1972

description: I begyndelsen af 1960-erne gennemførte Socialforskningsinstituttet en undersøgelse af fysisk handicappede personers sociale forhold (DDA-0002: Handicapundersøgelsen 1961-1962). Allerede på daværende tidspunkt overvejede man muligheden for at medinddrage de psykisk handicappedes problematik i undersøgelsen, men måtte dog afstå herfra af forskellige grunde.     #  En undersøgelse vedrørende psykisk handicappede kunne dog - efter en prøveundersøgelse i foråret 1971 - gennemføres i foråret 1972. Denne undersøgelses formål kan kort sammenfattes således:     #     #1) Beskrivelse af de sociale vilkår, som psykisk handicappede     #   mennesker lever under med hensyn til familie, bolig, indkomst     #   og arbejdsforhold m.v.     #     #2) Beskrivelse af arten og graden af den støtte, som den     #   handicappede har fået fra samfundet og dets institutioner, og     #   belysning af virkningen af disse støtteforanstaltninger på den     #   enkeltes trivsel og tilpasning.     #     #Undersøgelsen omfatter to grupper af psykisk handicappede, nemlig:     #     #1) Mennesker, der på et tidspunkt - i dette tilfælde 1966 - har     #   været behandlet på og udskrevet fra psykiatriske institutioner     #   (psykiatriske hospitalsafdelinger og statshospitaler).     #     #2) Mennesker med forskellige grader af intelligensnedsættelse, det     #   vil sige den del af åndssvageforsorgens klientel, der i     #   regnskabsåret 1966-67 er blevet udskrevet til enten ekstern     #   pleje (familiepleje og/eller fremmed pleje) eller definitivt     #   fra forsorgens institutioner.     #     #Undersøgelsesmaterialet blev indsamlet ved mundtlig interviewing af de udvalgte personer og en tilstedeværende pårørende. Endvidere blev der ved postspørgeskema indhentet oplysninger vedr. de udvalgte personer hos de sociale udvalg i de relevante kommuner
description: In the beginning of the 1960s the Danish National Institute of Social Research carried out a survey of the social conditions of physically handicapped persons (DDA-0002: Danish Handicap Survey, 1961-1962). Already at that time the possibility of including the problems of mentally deficient persons in the survey was considered, but this idea had to be given up for various reasons.     #  However, a survey of mentally deficient persons was - following a pilot survey in the spring of 1971 - carried out in the spring of 1972. The purposes of this survey may be summarized as follows:     #     #1) A description of the social conditions of mentally deficient     #   people as regards family, dwelling, income, employment     #   conditions, etc.     #     #2) A description of the type and degree of the support which     #   the mentally deficient person has received from various     #   institutions, and an examination of the effects of these     #   support measures on the well-being and adjustment of the     #   mentally deficient person.     #     #The survey comprises two groups of mentally deficient persons:     #     #1) People who at a certain time - in this case 1966 - have     #   received treatment at and have been discharged from psychiatric     #   institutions (psychiatric hospital wards and mental hospitals).     #     #2) People with various degrees of reduced intelligence, i.e.     #   the part of the clientele of the Care of the Mentally Deficient     #   Department who, in the fiscal year 1966-67, were discharged     #   either to external care (family care and/or other types of     #   care) or definitively from the Department's institutions.     #     #The data material was collected by means of face-to-face interviews with the selected persons and a relative who was present. In addition, information on the selected persons was obtained by means of postal questionnaires completed by the social welfare committees in the relevant municipalities
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