To know the work of professionals with people with disability. Developing a questionnaire using the Delphi method.
Conference:
ECER 2016
Format:
Poster

Session Information

04 SES 04.5 PS, General Poster Session

General Poster Session

Time:
2016-08-24
12:00-13:30
Room:
NM-Concourse Area
Chair:

Contribution

Disabled people who attend the various services offered to them (day centers, integration supporting centers / occupational centers or residential centers) tend to have a very inactive participation in the community where they live in comparison with people without disabilities. This may be occasioned for a few inclusive attitude of the environment or for the methodologies carried out by professionals that are obsolete and are not looking for that purpose. That means, sometimes the workers, either by issues personal or by lack of resources, time and / or space, are limited to perform their tasks in a fast for meet the targets set by managers.

Fortunately, in recent decades they have been developed a number of methodologies that strive to improve the quality of life of people with disabilities, self-determination and for their presence and community involvement. Two of these methods are person-centered planning and active support. The first one seeks, with the help of family, friends and professionals, that the person with disabilities get their goals, dreams and desires to be he/she who make their own decisions. Moreover, active support seeks that the person to have greater participation in the activities of daily life through practices such as the sequencing of more easily and adapted tasks and prevent downtime caused by professionals overwork or by their lack of initiative.

The research presented here consist on develop a questionnaire that will reveal whether the professionals who work daily with people with disabilities use the foundations of the two methods outlined above. But for this data collection tool is reliable, it is necessary to be validated, so it will hold a Delphi that will indicate whether the items raised are valid and which are relevant to this study.

Method

In order to elaborate the questionnaire that is intended to determine whether professionals working with people with disabilities follow the principles of person centered planning and active support, we used the Delphi methodology. This method, very useful in social sciences, part of the idea that a group of people who are experts in a particular subject (previously selected) can join their knowledge to reach an agreement by statistical analysis of information collection. First has developed a questionnaire, which will be the starting point in this study, in which the main foundations of the two main methodologies that will be studied are included. Subsequently, it has proceeded to the selection of various professionals in the field of disability, which work in day centers, occupational centers, residential centers or are people from the university but with extensive training on this topic. Once we selected the experts, they were asked to reach the main questionnaire adapted to Delphi format, that means, these professionals have had to assess the applicability (in relation to the workplace) and relevance (scoring 0 to 9) of each items. In addition, they have been asked to make relevant comments on each of the questions and they are given the opportunity to propose some aspect that is important and not envisaged in the initial questionnaire. When these data have been analyzed, we have been contacted again with experts to make them reach the second version of the questionnaire, in which contains all the changes that had been proposed and had removed those items that they considered were not relevant to this study. Then, they be asked for a reassessment in the event that their score is not in the range of the average.

Expected Outcomes

After the second round in working with disability experts through Delphi methodology, we proceeded to analyze the data, which have provided sufficient information to make a valid and reliable questionnaire that it will, later, pick up sufficient data to know if the professionals who are working in the field of disability know what the person centered planning and active support are, and if they follow the rules of the intervention focused on the people and active support.

References

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Author Information

María-Teresa Iglesias-García (presenting / submitting)
University of Oviedo, Spain
Universidad de Oviedo
Education Science
Oviedo
University of Oviedo, Spain

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