title: Demand for psychosocial counselling of young wheelchair users.
abstract: Young persons tied to wheelchairs increasingly report fears and inhibitions in romantic attachments, irrespective of whether they are paraplegic or not. More frequently they complain about being gaped at and being pitied by healthy persons more than they would like. Being tied to the wheelchair had a significant relation to these results, but not gender, age and illness variables. A high demand for psychosocial counselling during rehabilitation is deduced from these results, in particular also for young people without paraplegia.
authors.affiliation: Arztin für Kinder- und Jugend-psychiatrie und Rehabilitationsmedizin, Fachkrankenhaus Neckargemünd, Germany.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Voll
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Krumm
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Fichtner
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D010264:Paraplegia / Q000523:psychology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012647:Self-Assessment; D012731:Sex Counseling; D019529:Sexuality; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014910:Wheelchairs