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标题：The Costs of Caregivers for Children with Disabilities that Participate in Centre-Based and Home-Based Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) Programmes in the East Coast of Malaysia
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作者：Haliza Hasan ; Syed Mohamed Aljunid ; Amrizal MN 等
期刊名称：Intellectual Discourse
印刷版ISSN：0128-4878
电子版ISSN：2289-5639
出版年度：2021
卷号：29
期号：1
语种：English
出版社：IIUM Press, International Islamic University Malaysia
摘要：Rehabilitation for disabled children requires long-term programmeswhich are expensive to the family. This study aimed to estimate the costincurred by caregivers’ children with disabilities from Pahang, Terengganu andKelantan participating in Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) (Centre-Based and Home-Based) and cost of seeking alternative rehabilitation. Costanalysis using the Activity-Based Costing (ABC) method was used to estimatetwelve-months’ expenditure in 2014 institutional year on 297 caregivers ofchildren with disability, aged 0 to 18 years who attended CBR. Data werecollected using a self-administered costing questionnaire and presentedin median (IQR). Results showed that the median direct and indirect costs,excluding medications and alternative care were nearly four times as highin Home-Based compared to Centre-Based (RM2, 376 (11,228) vs. RM608 (739) (p = <0.001). Both groups of caregivers spent a significant amount ofresources on alternative rehabilitation. The high costs incurred for alternativerehabilitation is a major economic burden to the family.