Issues of children with disabilities registered as disabled

Aim. To analyze the medical and social characteristics of children's disability at the stage of primary medical and social care in the polyclinics of Kazan.

Methods. 185 case reports of development of children with disabilities aged 0 to 17 years were analyzed as well as the questionnaires for their parents and 96 case reports of healthy peers of the same age group based on the data from children polyclinics N. 9 and 7 of Kazan. Relative values were calculated to process the results.

Results. The conducted analysis revealed that children with the status of disabled persons were more often born in aged and young mothers, with pathological pregnancy and first birth. In the structure of disability causes, psychiatric disorders and nervous system diseases are prevailing. Disabled children acquire acute diseases more often than their healthy peers that causes additional expanses for the family, including those due to the care for acutely ill child, and requires additional provision with medications. Individual lessons in the rehabilitation of a child with disabilities require additional financial investments from the family budget. We revealed the need for implementation of educational courses for the parents of disabled children due to that every second family did not have specific knowledge and skills of care and rehabilitation, when a child had functional limitations found.

Conclusion. Families with children with disabilities in the status of a disabled child need additional assistance in solving medical and social problems.