+44-7897-074717Post rehabilitation impact on Syrian refugees with lower limb amputation through post donation analysis and monitoring survey (NSPPL Reyhanli)
3rd International Conference on Health Care and Health Management
November 04-05, 2019 | Prague, Czech Republic
Andrea Patterson
Relief International, Turkey
Scientific Tracks Abstracts : J Public Health Policy Plann
Abstract:
Background: Turkey hosts more Syrian refugees than any
other country. As of Sep 2019, 3.6 million Syrian refugees were
registered with the Government of Turkey (UNHCR). A large
number of the refugees have settled in Turkey’s southeastern
provinces of Şanliurfa, Hatay, Kilis, and Gaziantep. The 2019
Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) reports that 45% of
surveyed persons injured during the Syria crisis are expected
to sustain a permanent impairment (e.g. amputation, spinal
cord injury, brain injury). According to NHO 2017, 53% of
injuries were due to explosive weapons. Relief International
is supporting the National Syrian Project for Prosthetic Limbs
in Reyhanli (Turkey) in terms of organizational capacity
building funded by ECHO. Responding to the critical, lifesaving
rehabilitation needs among all refugees eligible for services
by the Government of Turkey. The center is providing
prosthetic devices to refugees with lower limb amputations
with capacity of 20-25 devices monthly. Nearly 80% of the
beneficiaries are war-related injuries, out of them 18% are
females.
Post rehabilitation impact on Syrian refuges with lower limb
amputation is seeking to collect and analysis of information
provides a gathered from the beneficiaries through surveys
and focus group discussions that includes quantity and quality
indicators that aim to monitor the functional improvements
by using functional Independence Measure and Amputee
Mobility Predictor during assessment, discharge and follow
up session after 45 days of discharge date.
Methodology: The methodology for this assessment is based
on a mixed method design, which includes qualitative and
quantitative tools. The tools utilized to assess and measure
beneficiaries’ improvement. The universe sample is the
beneficiaries who received full prosthesis device in the first
quarter of 2019 and sample was 16 beneficiaries (with
confidentiality interval 95% and margin of error 5%, and using
random sampling), but unfortunately survey team reached
only 11 beneficiaries.
Results: RI plans to present the results of the post donation
analysis and monitoring survey. Results showed that all the
surveyed beneficiaries reported they were ready to use the
prosthetic devices and the majority of beneficiaries (82%)
using donated prosthetic devices after discharge, and 78%
of the respondents reported improvements in walking. On
the other hand, 73% of the surveyed beneficiaries said that
their prosthetic devices did not match their expectations, and
82% of the beneficiaries had some kind of problem with their
devices after discharge.
Conclusions: RI will utilize the finding of the survey to
adapt the technical and programmatic support to physical
rehabilitation centers supported by RI to improve in
performance, and to share this experience with other physical
rehabilitation centers in Turkey.
Biography:
Andrea Patterson is the Country Director of Relief International in Turkey. She is a humanitarian response worker with over 12 years of professional work experience in managing complex program portfolios at post conflict and humanitarian response settings. She has been working in assistance for Syrian refugees in a variety of countries, overseeing innovative programmatic activities and improving the lives of refugees. She holds a Master of Science in Public Health, a Master of Arts in Human Security and Peacebuilding, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.
E-mail: andrea.patterson@ri.org
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