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TY - JOUR
T1 - The physical health of British adults with intellectual disabilities
T2 - a cross-sectional study
AU - Emerson, E.
AU - Hatton, C.
AU - Robertson, J.
AU - Baines, S.
PY - 2016/7/1
Y1 - 2016/7/1
N2 - Aim: To add to knowledge about the health of the ‘hidden majority’ of adults with mild intellectual disabilities (ID) who do not use ID services.Method: Secondary analysis of data from Understanding Society. We identified 299 participants aged 16 to 49 years (1.1% of the unweighted age-restricted sample) as having ID, and 22,927 as not having ID. Multivariate logistic regression was used to investigate between-group differences adjusting for potential confounding personal characteristics.Results: British adults with ID have markedly poorer health than their non-disabled peers on the majority of indicators investigated including self-rated health, multiple morbidity, arthritis, cancer, diabetes, obesity, measured grip strength, measured lung function and polypharmacy. Adjusting for between-group differences in socio-economic disadvantage and neighbourhood quality had a marked impact on risk estimates with the number of statistically significant differences reducing from 13 to 8 and statistically significant attenuation of risk on three indicators.Conclusions: The ‘hidden majority’ of adults with primarily mild ID have significantly poorer health than their non-disabled peers. This may, in part, reflect their increased risk of exposure to well established ‘social determinants’ of poorer health.
AB - Aim: To add to knowledge about the health of the ‘hidden majority’ of adults with mild intellectual disabilities (ID) who do not use ID services.Method: Secondary analysis of data from Understanding Society. We identified 299 participants aged 16 to 49 years (1.1% of the unweighted age-restricted sample) as having ID, and 22,927 as not having ID. Multivariate logistic regression was used to investigate between-group differences adjusting for potential confounding personal characteristics.Results: British adults with ID have markedly poorer health than their non-disabled peers on the majority of indicators investigated including self-rated health, multiple morbidity, arthritis, cancer, diabetes, obesity, measured grip strength, measured lung function and polypharmacy. Adjusting for between-group differences in socio-economic disadvantage and neighbourhood quality had a marked impact on risk estimates with the number of statistically significant differences reducing from 13 to 8 and statistically significant attenuation of risk on three indicators.Conclusions: The ‘hidden majority’ of adults with primarily mild ID have significantly poorer health than their non-disabled peers. This may, in part, reflect their increased risk of exposure to well established ‘social determinants’ of poorer health.
U2 - 10.1111/jir.12305
DO - 10.1111/jir.12305
M3 - Meeting abstract
VL - 60
SP - 662
EP - 662
JO - Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
JF - Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
SN - 0964-2633
IS - 7-8
ER -