Quality of life of deaf sign language users in the south of Brazil

Keywords: Deafness, Health promotion, Quality of life, Sign language

Abstract

This study aims to investigate deaf users of the Brazilian Sign Language, who live in the South of Brazil, quality of life using the WHOQOL-Bref, and to analyze health related quality of life factors that influence this population. It is a quantitative transversal study, and data was collected by application of WHOOQL-Bref, in addition of a questionnaire with the sample profile. Sixty deaf sign language users from the South of Brazil participated in the survey. Statistical analysis was used by description statistic methods and inferential methods at a 5% level of significance. The results showed that the mean score of the WHOOQL-Bref questionnaire was 43,3%. The highest scores was in the domain of social relations (64,31%), and the lowest ones is in the environment domain (54,77%). Deaf participants with better education levels, which perceive themselves as proficient users of the Portuguese language, had higher quality of life scores. The commitment to the QoL of the Brazilian society, including deaf population, focus of this research work, presupposes the formulation and fulfillment of public policies that aim the development of affirmative action’s that should overcome conditions of inequality and exclusion of these people, in order to assist the elimination of barriers that impede or hinder their participation in society.

Author Biographies

Israel Bispo dos Santos, IFPR/SEED PR
Master´s Degree in Communication Disorders by the Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná (UTP); Pedagogue at SEED and Sign Language Interpreter at IFPR, Curitiba, Brazil
Jair Mendes Marques
Doctor´s Degree in Geodesic Sciences. Professor in the Master´s and Doctor´s Program in Communication Disorders by Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná (UTP), Brazil.
Ana Paula Berberian, Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná - UTP
Post-doctorate in Linguistics by the Universidade Federal do Paraná. Professor in Undergraduate Courses in Phonoaudiology and in the Master´s and Doctor´s Program in Communication Disorders at the Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná (UTP), Curitiba PR Brazil.
Giselle Aparecida de Athayde Massi, Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná - UTP
Doctor´s Degree in Linguistics; Professor in the Postgraduate Program in Communication Disorders at the Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná (UTP), Brazil
Rita de Cássia Tonocchi, Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná - UTP
Doctor in Language and Literature/Linguistics; Professor in the Postgraduate Program in Communication Disorders at the Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná (UTP), Brazil.
Ana Cristina Guarinello, Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná - UTP
Doutora em Estudos Linguísticos, docente permanente do Programa de Pós-graduação em Distúrbios da Comunicação da Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná - UTP, Brasil.

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Published
2020-06-12
Section
Artigos Originas - Promoção da Saúde