Comparison between Capabilities of the Disabled People before and after Implementation of Community Based on Rehabilitation(CBR) Program

Abstract Introduction: Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) is the strategy focuses to inhancing quality of life for disabled people. This strategy plan to consider requirements of the disabled people in all countries. Objective: The goal of this study is to compare capabilities of disabled people before and after implementation of CBR program. Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in the region of Guilan in 2011. randomly 200 disabled people were selected.Tizun Zhao form designed used to collect data in two parts: the first part contain of 10 questions about demographic data, the second part consist of 9 items about competences of the disabled people. Data was analyzed by Wilcoxon Test, t-test and Chi-Square Test. Results: Average age of studied people was 31.214.3 year. Most cases were men (68%) and unemployed (73%) and no type of occupation. In viewpoint of disability, most cases were physical-movement disabled people (42.5%). There was a significant statistical relationship between type of disability and effect of Community Based Rehabilitation (P=0.005). There was also a direct statistical relationship between training period and disability decrease(P=0.005). Capability of the disabled was with the mean and standard deviation 76.3421.7, but it decreased to 59.3315.04 after intervention (P=0.001). Conclusion: Implementation of community based rehabilitation program is an effective method to promote the function of disabled people.