title: Perceived social support among people with physical disability.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Disability is more based on social, rather than medical aspects. Lack of attention and social support may impact on participation of people with physical disability in various aspects and their return to normal life in the society.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This study was conducted to determine perceived social support and related factors among physically disabled in the city of Tehran.
  
  
  METHODS
  This cross-sectional study by using simple random sampling was conducted on 136 people with physically disabled who were covered by Welfare Organization of Tehran. The Norbeck social support questionnaire was used .Multiple linear regression analysis with the backward method was used to identify the adjusted association between perceived social support as dependent variable and demographic variables as independent variables.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The present sample comprised of 68 (50%) male and 68 (50%) female with the mean age of 33 (SD = 8.9) years. Based on the results, mean of functional support was 135. 57 (SD = 98.77) and mean of structural support was 77.37 (SD = 52.37). Regression analysis model, demonstrates that variables of age and marital status remained in the model as significant predictors of functional support (P = 0.003, P = 0.004, respectively) and structural support (P = 0.002, P = 0.006, respectively).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Based on the results, participants in the study didn't have favorable status with respect to perceived social support (in all dimensions) from their social network members. While, social support as one of the social determinants of health, plays an important role in improving psychological conditions in people's lives; therefore, being aware of social support and designing effective interventions to improve it for the disabled is very important.
authors.affiliation: Social Determinant of Health Research Center, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Ameneh
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Setareh Forouzan
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Abolfazl
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mahmoodi
authors.affiliation: University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Zahra
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Jorjoran Shushtari
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Public Health School, Kermanshah University of Medical Science, Kermanshah, IR Iran ; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Public Health School, Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Yahya
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Salimi
authors.affiliation: Social Determinant of Health Research Center, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Homeira
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sajjadi
authors.affiliation: Social Determinant of Health Research Center, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Zohreh
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Mahmoodi
keywords: Iran; Perceived Social Support; Physically Disabled; Welfare Organization