| Summary: | 碩士 === 中臺科技大學 === 醫療暨健康產業管理系碩士班 === 105 === Abstract
Backgrounds: According to the data issued in 2015 by Department of Statistics, Ministry of the Interior, a total of 57,136 people were visually impared in Taiwan and some of them were masseuers. Whether people with visual impairements have helthy lifestyles or leisure activities is an important issue. Therefore, the objective of this study is to investigate the lifestyles and leisure activities for those with visual impairements working as masseurs so that useful
suggestions can be raised to improve their quality of life.
Methods: A structured questionnaire was designed and purposive sampling was adopted for this investigation. The questionnaires were orally ditated to 150 visally impared paricipants with oral responses collected by the investigators. The questionnaire included demorgraphic information and AIO questions for inquiring activities and interests preferred as well as their personal opinions. The questionnaire was validated by experts with a reliability of 0.744
(Cronbach alpha value). Informed consents were collected before conducting interviews. This study was approved by Institute of Reviewing Board. SPSS software package (IBM, version 17.0) was adopted for statistical analysis.
Results: The results showed that, among the 150 participants, 93 were male; 73 were unmarried; 89 were visually impaired and 79 kept action vision; 133 were diagnosed as visually disabled; 100 were within 31-50 years old; 88 said their living expenditure was lower than 9999 NT dollars; and 107 had continuously worked for a company for 4-10 years. It was also observed that the participants
favored reading novels, as well as listening to music, movie, broadcast, and TV. The participants also expressed that they enjoyed tasting various foods and preferred having a stable job even the salary was low. Regrading engagement of leisure activities, hiking, skating, rock-climbing, taichi practice, upstreaming, etc, were all preferred activities. However, because of visual impairement, the activities they conducted were mostly not they liked. Low dominating living
expenditure (<9999 NT dollars) indicated that it lacked effective governmental policies and subsidiaries to assist visually impaired people to sustain their quality of life. Most participants were unable to pay for the cost to engage in lesure activities because of low income.
Conclusion: Although visually impared people preferred having healthy leisure activities, they were limited by visual disability and were not affordable to pay the cost for the low income. We suggest that the government should enact more beneficial policies and provide sufficient sudsidaries to promote their quality of life.
Keywords: visually-impaired persons, lifestyle, leisure activities
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