Factors Related to the Quality of Life in the Context of Deaf Sign Language Users in Brazil

Authors

  • Israel Bispo dos Santos

  • Ana Paula Berberian

  • Giselle Massi

  • Rita Tonocchi

  • Jair Mendes Marques

  • Everton Morais

Keywords:

deafness quality of life sign language health promotion

Abstract

Introduction Deaf sign language users population often has been facing linguistic difficulties regarding to interacting with people who are not aware who have not learnt about using sign language such difficulties may have been revealing serious consequences to their social emotional and also cognitive development Objective This study has aimed to analyze the factors which may be associated with the best scoring of Quality of Life QOL in a group of deaf Brazilian sign language Libras users Methods It is a quantitative study whose data collection has been assessing using the WHOQOL-BREF scale and a sample profile questionnaire as well Sixty 60 deaf Libras users who has been living in Southern region of Brazil have participated Statistical analysis was used by means of descriptive statistical methods and inference methods considering the significance level of 0 05 5

How to Cite

Israel Bispo dos Santos, Ana Paula Berberian, Giselle Massi, Rita Tonocchi, Jair Mendes Marques, & Everton Morais. (2020). Factors Related to the Quality of Life in the Context of Deaf Sign Language Users in Brazil. Global Journal of Human-Social Science, 20(G1), 1–13. Retrieved from https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/3100

Factors Related to the Quality of Life in the Context of Deaf Sign Language Users in Brazil

Published

2020-01-15