This survey-based descriptive study is conducted to examine community-based rehabilitation (CBR) services and livelihood enhancement of people with disabilities (PWDs) in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. The population of this study comprises all the beneficiaries of community-based rehabilitation (CBR) service in the State. The population is stratified into the three senatorial zones that comprise Akwa Ibom State. Simple randomly sampling technique is used to select four hundred and thirty six (436) respondents who have participated in CBR programmes in the State. The major instrument for data collection is structured questionnaire designed using a four point likert scale of agree, strongly agree, disagree and strongly disagree. The hypotheses formulated to guide the study were tested using the Spearman’s rank-order correlation technique. The findings reveal among other things that there is a significant relationship between CBR and the five dimensions (skills development, self-employment, wages employment, financial services, and social protection) of livelihood enhancement of PWDs in Akwa Ibom State. Hence, it is concluded that CBR programmes is significantly related to livelihood enhancement of PWDs in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. It is, therefore, recommended among others that government should enhance an effective skills development through CBR programmes to pull PWDs out of poverty and self-pity.
BT - Journal of Sociology, Psychology and Anthropology in Practice IS - 1 LA - eng N2 -This survey-based descriptive study is conducted to examine community-based rehabilitation (CBR) services and livelihood enhancement of people with disabilities (PWDs) in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. The population of this study comprises all the beneficiaries of community-based rehabilitation (CBR) service in the State. The population is stratified into the three senatorial zones that comprise Akwa Ibom State. Simple randomly sampling technique is used to select four hundred and thirty six (436) respondents who have participated in CBR programmes in the State. The major instrument for data collection is structured questionnaire designed using a four point likert scale of agree, strongly agree, disagree and strongly disagree. The hypotheses formulated to guide the study were tested using the Spearman’s rank-order correlation technique. The findings reveal among other things that there is a significant relationship between CBR and the five dimensions (skills development, self-employment, wages employment, financial services, and social protection) of livelihood enhancement of PWDs in Akwa Ibom State. Hence, it is concluded that CBR programmes is significantly related to livelihood enhancement of PWDs in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. It is, therefore, recommended among others that government should enhance an effective skills development through CBR programmes to pull PWDs out of poverty and self-pity.
PY - 2017 SP - 62 EP - 77 T2 - Journal of Sociology, Psychology and Anthropology in Practice TI - Community-based rehabilitation services and livelihood enhancement for persons with disabilites in Nigeria: A case study of Akwa Ibom State. UR - http://tinyurl.com/yaw3fv2z VL - 8 ER -