Illness Representation in Motor Impaired Children

The current study is interested to compare illness representation held by motor impaired children who comes from an institutionalized special school and those who live with their families and are enrolled in public schools. Fifty six children were investigated, all diagnosed with different motor impairments with results showing that the second group holds a more negative self-image, but also more knowledge about the illness including ways of treatment and information about the causes. In institutionalized children resignation was the predominant attitude on disability while the second group hold a more combative and active attitude.