The Effectiveness of Patience Training to Improve the Quality of Life of People with Disabilities in Rural Indonesia

Abstract

Physically disabled people who were not born with a physical disability might experience physiological, social, environmental, and spiritual changes thataffect their quality of life, which is perceived differently by different individuals.This study applies patience training topeople with physical disabilities and assesses its effects on increasing their quality of life. The study uses aquasi-experimental pretest and posttest control group.Fourteen  people with disabilities participated in the study. They were divided into two groups:eight in the experimental group and six in the control group. The hypothesis was measured using a t-test, which obtained p =0.014 (p<0.05), which indicated a significant difference in the quality of life betweenthe experimental group and the control group. The results of this study indicated that patient training could beeffectivein increasingthe quality of life of people with physical disabilities.