The need of persons with disabilities acquired during participation in a special military operation to receive vocational education and professional retraining

Introduction. Military personnel who became disabled as a result of injury, illness or injury found themselves in a situation of need to restore their ability to work in working conditions available to them due to their health status, and to be included in work activities, taking into account their specific psychophysiological features.

Goal. The article is aimed at identifying common and stable characteristics of persons with disabilities acquired during combat operations and special operations in 2022-2024. The article is also aimed at studying the needs of these people for vocational education and professional retraining, taking into account the identified characteristics.

Materials and methods. The study is based on the analysis of a questionnaire survey of 23 people who participated in a special military operation and received a disability. The questionnaire survey was conducted in person on a voluntary basis. The research results were processed using statistical methods.

Results and discussion. As the analysis showed, a high level of motivation to work prevails among disabled combatants. It has been established that every third combat disabled person is not ready to change profession, which significantly complicates his opportunities for further employment and successful work.

Conclusion. Creating conditions for organizing vocational education and professional retraining of combat disabled people must be combined with measures of professional and psychological rehabilitation of this category of people, including helping a person understand the need to change his profession and forming value and ideological attitudes that contribute to his activity towards self-realization in the professional sphere.

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