Identifying body needs of the war- injured soldiers of Kinetic disability during the Syrian Crisis in Lattakia Governorate

Since 2011, Syrian Arab soldiers have been facing a daily terrorist war, that targets the Syrian State with all its components: land, people and infrastructure A matter that exposes them to war injuries like Kinetic disability (amputation ,paralysis) resulting from explosions, fragments and live bullets and this imposes a set of body needs . Through this descriptive study that investigated the body needs of 197 Kinetic – disability infected soldier since the beginning of 2011 until 8/2014 who have been registered in Zahi Azrak Military Hospital in Lattakia , using a study- suitable and reliability sings questionnaire developed by the researcher, we found that 58.9% of the soldier are paralysed (73.3% of which are lower-limb paralysed), 41,1% amputated (67.9% a lower-limb amputated) . the level of motion, activity, moving, treatment, medicine, sleep and rest was intermediate, while the level of nutrition and self-treatment was low. Therefore, this study suggests designing and implementing educational programs to all community levels to make the needs of the disabled soldier Known, and establishing specialized centers to rehabilitate them and providing their needs of treatment and amendments, and legislating regulations to provide environments to facilitate their moves, and it also recommends working out a research to investigate all factors that influence meeting the body needs of the Kinetic disabled soldiers .