Organisational Structure as Barrier or Support in the Personal Social ...

Table: 26. If you consider that your life-situation has improved, WHAT in your life-situationhas improved as a result of the contact with the social services? (Percentage per answeralternative)I have not noticed any14,1improvementEconomy 38,2Work 7,3Living 23,0Leisure time 6,3Health 22,5Well-being 24,1Relations to other persons 17,3My view on future possibilities 31,9Something else 11,5n= 160The clients could mark several alternatives as answers on the question in table 23, due to thatthe total percentage is higher than 100 percent. We have chosen not to present the answers byorganisation because these specific results do not express variations between different PSSorganisations.Instead table 26 presents a picture of common results for clients in the PSS inthe three studied organisations.Concerning results in terms of clients’ social relations, ability to influence their own lifesituationand self-esteem (results that are more general compared to the results in table 26),we have made a comparison between the PSS in the three municipalities, as we regard theanswers to express organisational differences.Table: 27. As a result of the contact with the social services, my relations to people aroundme (family, relatives, friends) are: (Percentage of all respondents)***Integrated Combined SpecialisedMuch better than before 14,9 26,2 7,1Somewhat better than before 25,4 23,0 23,2Unchanged 56,7 42,6 46,4Somewhat worse than before 1,5 3,3 3,6Much worse than before 0 0 5,4I do not know 1,5 4,9 14,3n= 67 61 56Significance: ***=0,01, **=0,05, *=0,1025