Title : Support a reason for living of persons with disabilities using the mobile phone application
Abstract:
Unemployment and working life conditions are huge issues for health conditions, because these deteriorate a reason for living. Though Japanese government has been struggling to improve employment conditions for job seekers with disabilities, it is still difficult to provide reasonable accommodations due to their changeable health conditions. Mobile phone applications are useful to monitor the condition of health and environment. The development of mobile phone application which will monitor the condition of health and environment must be more efficient to improve reasonable accommodations for job seekers with a variety of disabilities. The purpose of the study was to develop mobile phone application that make job seekers with disabilities’ health conditions and working environment conditions visible. To attain the goal, this first report investigated the items of mobile phone application based on literature review. Qualitative and descriptive design was used for this study. Literature review was conducted with keywords “persons with disability” “assessment for employment”, between 2019 to 2023 using “Ichushi Web” which was Japanese search tool for health sciences. Also, assessment tools regarding for job seekers with disabilities which have been used frequently were reviewed. The descriptions regarding assessment were selected from literature and tools respectively and integrated according to the similarities of the natures. This study was approved by ethical committee of National Institute of Public Health.999 literatures were hit, and 79 of them were selected according to the titles and abstracts, and finally 13 literatures were selected. Also, 5 tools were selected. 354 descriptions were obtained, divided into 68 subcategories, and categorized into 33. Finally, 33 categories were classified 3 parts, namely, daily activities, health conditions, and environments. The example of categories of daily activities were “having sleep” “having meals” “dressing” “Maney management “Communications with co-workers and family members”. The instance of descriptions of “having meals” was “Can the client have lunch during lunch time at work?”. The example of categories of health conditions were “feel calm” “concentration” “physical symptoms” “sense or movement conditions”. The instance of descriptions of “feel calm” was “Can the client control their anxieties?” The example of categories of health environments were “barrier in home” “acceptance of family members” “accessibilities to health care” “commute conditions” “atmosphere at worksite” “physical condition at worksite”. The instance of descriptions of “accessibilities to health care” was “Can the client have off to go see a doctor?” The candidate items from our study seem cover various kind of disabilities including physical, psychological, developmental, sensory disabilities. Also, they could provide supporters with implications to conduct more appropriate assessment. There, however, still were a couple of investigative issues for example, validation from job seekers with a variety of disabilities and their supporters regarding items and structure of them. This study was granted by Health and Labor Sciences Research Granat and had no conflict of interest.
Audience Take Away Notes:
- The audience will be able to use what kind of items should be monitor for job seekers with disabilities.
- This will help other faculty to expand their research or teaching regarding how to improve unemployment and job insecurity, working life conditions for persons with disabilities.
- This will provide public health practitioners with a practical solution to a problem regarding health inequalities by development of a mobile phone application to monitor health condition and supportive environment for job seekers with disabilities.
