EXAMINATION DIRECTIONS AS A COMPONENT OF PHYSICAL THERAPY, FOR CHILDREN WITH BRONCHOPULMONARY DISEASES FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTIONING, DISABILITY AND HEALTH

Abstract

Introduction. The Ministry of Economy of Ukraine, by its order No. 810-22 of April 9, 2022, approved the International Classification of Functioning, Limitations of Vital Activities and Health (ICF) as National Classifier NC 030:2022. This, in turn, requires appropriate approaches to both the entire rehabilitation process and its components.
 Purpose: to model the components of examination directions, as a component of the physical therapy program, for children with bronchopulmonary diseases, according to the international classification of functioning, limitations of life activities and health.
 Methods: General and specialized methods of cognition: analysis, generalization, systematization and comparison of information from scientific and methodical literature on the problems of physical therapy in bronchopulmonary diseases.
 Results. Rehabilitation examination of children with bronchopulmonary diseases includes both objective and subjective assessments, as well as observations, which are interconnected. Changing the focus from the classification of «disease consequences» to «health components», which is the basis of the ICF, requires looking at the examination component in the process of physical therapy from the side of the health components of a child with bronchopulmonary diseases. Based on this, we considered the examination as a component of the physical therapy program for children with bronchopulmonary diseases, classified using the ICF model. In our approach, we determined the main directions of the examination, based on the components of the ICF, since when selecting tests and scales, the child’s age and development must be taken into account first and foremost.
 Conclusions. Rehabilitation examination is a component of physical therapy, which is carried out with the aim of determining a rehabilitation diagnosis and is based on subjective, objective assessments and observational data. In this work, we identified the main directions for choosing examination methods based on ICF, which will contribute to the selection of examination tools, determining their priorities, and formulating a categorical profile of patients with bronchopulmonary diseases.