学会での要旨ーカンボジアの研究ー

2020年９月に書いたものです

The study analyzes the Determinants of the gap of test score between students with mental disorders and students without mental disorders in Cambodia. According to the World Report on Disability, some 1 billion people amounting to 15% of the world’s population have a disability. An estimated 800 million of these people live in developing countries. Definition of disability and disorder vary across contexts and there is contextual variation in methodological applied to measure disability or disorder. This research focuses on students with mental disability or students with mental disorders, and previous studies of mental disorders have not revealed the situation of students with mental disorders in school in developing countries. Mental disorders and mental disabilities lead students to academic impairments and drop out of school. It is enviable that impairment, illness, or injury lead to discrimination and disability (Yeo.2003). Also, Disability (disorder) is associated with long-term poverty. Disability and poverty are often said to be caught in a mutually reinforcing cycle (Grech.2014).
Historically, as a post-conflict country, Cambodia has a number of risk factors which can lead to a high prevalence of psychosocial impairments and prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorders. However, In Cambodia, the lack of access to appropriate and affordable health, rehabilitation and disability services has a significant impact on the well-being and participation of people with disabilities. Therefore, the lack of health services facing issues, needs to be arranged the ‘inclusive, learning-friendly environments.’
Disability and disorder have a complicated background problem such as poverty, discrimination, stigma, lack of teacher’s understanding or lack of parental understanding, and so on.
The research objective is to examine the determinants of the gap of the test score between students with mental disorders and students without mental disorders. Some patients with mental disorders develop before the age of 15 and onset in childhood and adolescence. Due to the fact of this tendency, this study uses the secondary data of ‘PISA for development’; the target is age of 15, conduct T-test on the dataset contains 5162 student’s data in Cambodia.