The self-rated health of British adults with intellectual disability

Emerson, Eric and Robertson, Janet and Baines, Susannah and Hatton, Chris (2014) The self-rated health of British adults with intellectual disability. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 35 (3). pp. 591-596. ISSN 0891-4222

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Abstract

People with intellectual disability have significantly higher age-adjusted rates of mortality and morbidity than their non-disabled peers. While self-rated health status is commonly used as an indicator of the health status of populations of interest, few studies have explored the self-rated health of adults with intellectual disability. We undertook secondary analysis of de-identified cross-sectional data from the first waves of two contemporary UK surveys: the Life Opportunities Survey (n=37,513) and Understanding Society (n=50,976). In the Life Opportunities Survey we identified 316 participants age 16-49 (1.7% of the age-restricted sample) as having intellectual disability. In Understanding Society we identified 415 participants age 16-49 (1.5% of the age-restricted sample) as having intellectual disability. Participants with intellectual disability were significantly more likely to report having fair or worse health than their peers (Life Opportunities Survey OR=8.86 (6.54-12.01), p

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Research in Developmental Disabilities
Additional Information:
This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Research in Developmental Disabilities. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Research in Developmental Disabilities, 35, 3, 2014 DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2014.01.005
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? self-rated healthhealth health disparities socio-economic disadvantage discriminationclinical psychologydevelopmental and educational psychology ??
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68702
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Deposited On:
24 Feb 2014 09:48
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