Title ASMENŲ PO KOJŲ AMPUTACIJOS GYVENIMO KOKYBĖS KAITA DĖL DALYVAVIMO SPORTINĖJE VEIKLOJE /
Translation of Title Life change of people with leg amputation and their participation in sports activities.
Authors Zajankauskas, Paulius
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Keywords [eng] sports activities ; amputacion ; life's quality
Abstract [eng] The work presents theoretical analysis of life change of people with leg amputation and their participation in sports activities. The hypothesis shows that people who faced leg amputation and take part in sports activities have a better quality of life than those, who sport not regularly. Due to the method of questionnaire, a research was done and its purpose was to evaluate the role of sport in the life of people with leg amputation. Also, there is a statistical analysis of data. The research included people who faced the leg amputation in the level of a thigh. The period after amputation was not less than 3 years, and the person had to be involved in sports not less than 1 year. The empiric approach reveals the index of the life quality of people with leg amputation, it also shows the role of sports for the quality of life, the changes in life quality due to the intensity of sports activities. 1. It was stated that the biggest part of disabled people taking part in sports activities are lonely (19%) have small income (44%) live in poor conditions (56%) poor health (19%) don’t have satisfaction of life (19%) 2. The relation between participation in sports activities and harmful habits was also noticed. Those who sport actively smoke and use less. 3. The direct relation between taking part in sport and health and quality of life was also revealed. It comes that sport enables to have better health, which is one of main indexes of better life quality. People, who took part in the research, said that participation in sport could be the index, which improves the quality of life. 4. The results of the research showed that those who took part in the sports activities had better indexes of life quality than those who took part in sport not regularly.
Type Master thesis
Language Lithuanian
Publication date 2008