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Purpose: This study identified functioning, health, and social needs in jobseekers with mental disorders independently assessed as having capacity to work and referred to disability employment services. Differences in function between jobseekers with mental illness alone and with additional drug and alcohol problems were examined with view to identifying interventions for vocational rehabilitation. Method: A […]
…Sexual abuse of individuals with disabilities occurs in alarming proportions, although the prevalence and incidence of such abuse is difficult to determine. Although all states maintain statistics on child sexual abuse, the rate of victimization for individuals with disabilities is not specific. This paper reviews several studies conducted on sexual abuse of individuals with disabilities […]
…Background The identification of individual staff characteristics that have a relationship with specific attitudes of staff caring for people with intellectual disability (ID) may enable targeted training and better support. Method Sixty-six participants from services for people with ID in metropolitan Melbourne, Australia, completed a survey, including the Attitudes to Sexuality Questionnaire (Individuals with an […]
…We examined whether the cognitive interview (CI) procedure increased event recall in children with severe intellectual disabilities (ID) compared with children with no ID. Forty-six children with and without ID watched a videotaped event; they were aged between eight and 11 years. The next day they were individually interviewed using the CI or a structured […]
…Women with disabilities are at greater risk for physical abuse than women without disabilities. However, no previous population-based studies have examined physical abuse against women with disabilities around the time of pregnancy, a critical period for mother and child. The objective of this study was to describe the prevalence of physical abuse before and during […]
…Introduction: The Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) is a scale that assesses psychiatric symptoms in patients with neurological disorders, principally dementia. Despite its advantages, there are few published studies in traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients. With the NPI information we are going to describe the psychopatologic disorders in a group of TBI chronic patients and look the […]
…Purpose: The aim of the present study was to determine the level of acceptance of disability as measured by the Acceptance of Disability Scale (ADS) within a sample of individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) from Neiva, Colombia and to examine the influence of sociodemographic variables, injury characteristics, and level of depression on ADS score. […]
…Domestic violence against women as a leading cause of injury in women is associated with a range of adverse physical and psychological health effects. Few studies focused on experience of domestic violence in women with disabilities. In a descriptive-analytical pilot study 150 married women 19-59 years who attending to Multiple sclerosis society of Khuzestan were […]
…Objective: To examine (a) ethnic differences in blood alcohol level (BAL) and preinjury chronic alcohol use (PI-ETOH) within a severe closed head injury (CHI) sample and (b) the main and interaction effects of BAL, PI-ETOH, and ethnicity on functional outcome following severe CHI. Participants: A total of 434 Hispanic, Anglo-Caucasian, and African-American individuals with severe […]
…Violence exposure and disabilities frequently co-occur. Rates of disabilities among children with violence exposure range from 3 to 11 times that of nonexposed children. Each can be causal in the development of the other both directly and through less direct pathways. In this article, both direct and indirect influences that can lead to a circular […]
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