Funcionamiento ocupacional en actividades de la vida diaria en la población en situación de discapacidad del municipio de Chitagá (Norte de Santander).

Abstract

The Occupational functioning are all those activities performed by the human being, related to the systems of volition, habituation and execution between the environmental and personal factors that the individual disposes. Within the present investigation in the population in situation of incapacity of the municipality of Chitagá-Norte de Santander, it is evidenced an alteration in the occupational functioning in the daily life activities, due to the fact that they need most of the time their relatives to perform self-care activities, which were assessed using the functional independence measure instrument (Wee-FIM), which allows us to evaluate the functionality and independence in the performance of activities of daily living, which showed that 37.1% are dependent, needing help from their caregivers and / or relatives to carry out self-care activities; also, 34.3% have difficulty developing social interaction skills due to the disability, they are unable to integrate in the context in which they perform, so it is intended to implement activities with a purpose from the Occupational Therapy disciplinary area and thus favor the occupational functioning in the execution of these activities, achieving autonomy and independence in the population in situation of disability and improve their quality of life.The present research has a quantitative design, based on an exploratory type. It also contains descriptive elements, due to the fact that a matrix was made in Excel to organize socio-demographic data and characterize the population within the municipality and invite them to participate in the investigation, filling in the informed consent, and the population is valued in order to identify the occupational functioning in daily life activities.