Table 5.
Barriers faced by people with psychosocial disability versus those without (selected access domains)
| Barriers | People with PSD n=117 |
% | People without PSD n=189 |
% | P value |
| Place of work | |||||
| Lack of information about work | 12 | 10.26 | 10 | 5.29 | 0.10 |
| Negative attitudes towards me at work | 11 | 9.4 | 4 | 2.1 | <0.001* |
| Difficulty getting to work from home | 17 | 14.5 | 11 | 5.8 | 0.01* |
| Health | |||||
| Lack of information about health services | 18 | 15.4 | 12 | 6.4 | 0.01* |
| Negative attitudes towards me | 8 | 6.8 | 4 | 2.1 | 0.04* |
| Difficulty getting to health services | 13 | 11.1 | 8 | 4.2 | 0.02* |
| Community consultations | |||||
| Lack of information about community consultations | 14 | 12.0 | 18 | 9.5 | 0.50 |
| Negative attitudes towards me | 12 | 10.3 | 2 | 1.1 | <0.001* |
| Difficulty getting to community meetings from home | 16 | 13.7 | 7 | 3.7 | <0.001* |
| Rehabilitation services | |||||
| Lack of information about rehabilitation services | 19 | 16.2 | 12 | 6.4 | 0.01* |
| Negative attitudes towards you from rehabilitation services | 4 | 3.4 | 0 | 0 | 0.01* |
| Difficulty getting to rehabilitation services from home | 9 | 7.7 | 8 | 4.2 | 0.20 |
| Safe drinking water | |||||
| Lack of information about accessible safe water | 5 | 4.3 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.02* |
| Negative attitudes towards me | 6 | 5.1 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.01* |
| Difficulty getting to safe water supplies (eg, pumps, wells) from home | 8 | 6.8 | 3 | 1.6 | 0.02* |
| Social activities | |||||
| Lack of information about social activities | 5 | 4.3 | 3 | 1.6 | 0.15 |
| Negative attitudes towards me | 5 | 4.3 | 2 | 1.1 | 0.07 |
| Difficulty getting to social venues from home | 13 | 11.1 | 1 | 0.5 | <0.001* |
| Religion | |||||
| Lack of information about religious activities | 5 | 4.3 | 3 | 1.6 | 0.15 |
| Negative attitudes towards me | 5 | 4.3 | 2 | 1.1 | 0.07 |
| Difficulty getting to religious venues from home | 11 | 9.4 | 3 | 1.6 | <0.001* |
| Government social welfare services | |||||
| Lack of information about government social services | 12 | 10.3 | 6 | 3.2 | 0.01** |
| Negative attitudes towards me | 9 | 7.7 | 0 | 0.00 | <0.001* |
| Difficulty getting to social welfare services | 5 | 4.3 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.02* |
| Disabled Persons Organisations (DPO) | |||||
| Lack of information about DPO services† | 11 | 9.4 | 3 | 1.6 | <0.001* |
| Negative attitudes towards me | 1 | 0.9 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.73 |
| Difficulty getting to DPO venue from home | 5 | 4.3 | 3 | 1.6 | 0.152 |
| Education | |||||
| Lack of information about education or training | 14 | 12.0 | 11 | 5.82 | 0.06 |
| Negative attitudes towards you | 4 | 3.4 | 1 | 0.53 | 0.05 |
| Difficulty getting to education or training facilities | 7 | 6.0 | 2 | 1.06 | 0.01* |
†
Other aspects of the DPO domain had too few numbers for useful analysis.
*Indicates findings that are statiscally significant with a probabillity of less than one in 20 that they occured due to chance.