Introduction: Spinal cord
injury (SCI) is a major public health problem in Bangladesh. Community re-integration
program at a halfway hostel during Institute Based Rehabilitation (IBR)
enhances the quality of life for people with physical disabilities to build the
confidence of the SCI persons and their family members. So that when they will
be at home, they will manage themselves without the support of professionals.
Thus the study will be remarkable to express clients' views for further
meaningful halfway hostels to the further clients.
Objective: To find out
the client’s ideas, needs, expectations, opinions, and recommendations towards
the halfway hostel of CRP.
Methodology: The study used
qualitative design, semi-structured, and face-to-face interviews. Ten (10)
participants who met the inclusion criteria also suffer from both tetraplegia
and paraplegia clients, and finished indoor phase treatment of the SCI unit in
CRP.
Result and discussion: The upshots
were presented by performing the coding system of the data and the nine (9)
main themes were produced, these were treatment taken at CRP indoors, duration
of staying at the halfway hostel, expectations on the treatment facilities of
the halfway hostel, treatment taken at the halfway hostel, necessity of halfway
hostel, an overall idea about the halfway hostel, differences between indoor
and halfway hostel, client’s suggestion about halfway hostel.
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