Calidad de vida de adultos en centros de capacitación laboralimplicaciones para su mejora

Zusammenfassung

This paper discusses the advantages of evaluating life quality in the case of adults with intellectual disabilities who attend vocational centers in Uruguay. Two measurement instruments are used: the Schalock and Keith’s Quality of Life scale (1993) translated by Verdugo and Knight (1998) in three versions: users, families and professionals, and Bolton and Roessler’s Occupational Personality Profile (1986) translated by Jenaro and Rodríguez (2000). It is an ex post facto correlational study with an experimentally accessible sample selection. A hundred youngters and adults with intellectual disabilities attending seven job training centers were selected. Each participant was tested with the Occupational Personality Profile. The Quality of Life scale was applied in the three versions. The study deepens into the relation between job skills in adulthood and perceived quality of life. Significant correlations were obtained between the scores related to divisions of the quality of life, such as self-determination / independence, social belonging/integration in the community with all factors of the Occupational Personality Profile. By comparing the information obtained by the application of the Quality of Life scale to the three groups: users, families and professionals, positive evidence is obtained in relation to the problem of the reliability of consulting people who are close to the users, when they can not respond directly. The results are useful for individual assessments and especially when considering intervention strategies focused on the person.