УДК 364-786+615.8]:616.89-008 Ergotherapy as a multidisciplinary approach to social and physical rehabilitation of persons with post-traumatic stress disorders

Abstract

As a result of the hybrid war, which continues in eastern Ukraine for the sixth year, and the epidemic of road accidents, the number of people with post-traumatic stress disorders is growing rapidly in the country. Among the 300,000 people who took part in the fighting, more than 500 patients with post-traumatic stress disorder committed suicide. One of the means of rehabilitation of patients with post-traumatic stress disorders is ergotherapy.  The aim is to analyze the possibilities of ergotherapy and identify promising directions of its development on the basis of a multidisciplinary approach to the rehabilitation of persons with post-traumatic stress disorders. Methods of system analysis and logical generalization were used to achieve this goal. Results. Among the wide variety of rehabilitation methods and facilities for people with post-traumatic stress disorders, ergotherapists use modern information technology, including mHealth mobile medical applications. However, in Ukraine, these approaches to physical rehabilitation and ergotherapy are only being implemented, so, unlike in developed countries, there are still no statistically significant results for the effectiveness of this approach. In addition, the existing training programs for the training of is ergotherapy practitioners do not imply a proficient knowledge of their professional English.This does not allow ergotherapists to take full advantage of the mHealt mobile applications, which are overwhelmingly English-speaking.         Conclusions. The use of medical mobile applications mHealth is a promising multidisciplinary approach to the rehabilitation of persons with post-traumatic stress disorders, the introduction of which is hampered by deficiencies in the preparation of ergotherapists, namely their lack of English.