COVID-19 & ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY, AUTISM, EPILEPSY, OR BRAIN INJURIES FINDINGS FROM AN ONLINE SORVEY

Items included demographic questions (disability identifiers, gender, ethnicity, race, geographic area, and type of health insurance), questions on COVID-19 information and impact and access to regular (non-COVID-19) health care and services. Yet, for the 2 % of the sample who had prescription medic...

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Published in:The Exceptional parent 2020-07, Vol.50 (7), p.36-38
Main Authors: Drum, Charles E, Oberg, Anthony, Ditsch, Jacob, Cooper, Karl, Carlin, Roberta
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Alaska Natives
Autism
Brain
Community Surveys
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Depression (Psychology)
Developmental Disabilities
Epilepsy
Guidelines
Information sources
Injuries
Insurance
Intellectual Disability
Internet
Multiple Disabilities
Online Surveys
Pandemics
Parent Role
People with disabilities
Television
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Summary:Items included demographic questions (disability identifiers, gender, ethnicity, race, geographic area, and type of health insurance), questions on COVID-19 information and impact and access to regular (non-COVID-19) health care and services. Yet, for the 2 % of the sample who had prescription medication access disrupted, this representants a potentially life-threatening situation. [...]38% of the sample reported experiencing new challenges to obtaining health care treatment, health care access, and/or prescriptions. [...]because of the use of a convenience sample, the results are not generalizable to the overall population of persons with intellectual disability, autism, epilepsy, or brain injury. 'The challenges revealed for this sample need to be examined with population-based research, and tracked over time. [...]the intricacies and changing dynamics of the pandemic establish a critical need for policy and programmatic responses to this extraordinary health
ISSN:2373-2881