Perceptions of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities about COVID‐19 in Spain: a cross‐sectional study.

Background: As the world battles COVID‐19, there is a need to study the perceptions of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) about the effects of the pandemic and associated lockdown on their lives. This work explores the perceptions of Spaniards with IDD during the lockdown...

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Publicado en:Journal of Intellectual Disability Research Vol. 65; no. 5; pp. 381 - 397
Autores principales: Amor, A. M., Navas, P., Verdugo, M. Á., Crespo, M.
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell May2021
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          Amor, A. M.
          Navas, P.
          Verdugo, M. Á.
          Crespo, M.
        affil: Institute for Community Inclusion (INICO), Department of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatments, Faculty of Psychology, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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          Intellectual Disability
          Developmental Disabilities
          COVID-19 Pandemic Spain
          Attitude to Illness
          Persons with Disabilities Psychosocial Factors
          Stay-at-Home Orders
          Access to Information
          Emotions
          Life Experiences
          Home Environment
          Health Services Accessibility
          Support, Psychosocial
          Human
          Spain
          Cross Sectional Studies
          Socioeconomic Factors
          Surveys
          Descriptive Statistics
          Attitude to Disability
      ab: Background: As the world battles COVID‐19, there is a need to study the perceptions of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) about the effects of the pandemic and associated lockdown on their lives. This work explores the perceptions of Spaniards with IDD during the lockdown with respect to four topics: access to information, emotional experiences, effects on living conditions and access to support. Methods: The topics were explored using a subset of 16 closed‐ended questions from an online survey. In total, 582 participants with IDD completed the survey. The frequencies and percentages of responses to the questions were calculated, and chi‐square tests performed to explore the relationship between participants' sociodemographic characteristics and responses. Given that people differed in the way in which they completed the survey, the relationship between participants' responses and completion method was also analysed. Results: Participants reported that the pandemic and subsequent lockdown have had a deleterious effect on their emotional well‐being (around 60.0% of participants) and occupations (48.0% of students and 72.7% of workers). Although access to information and support was reportedly good overall, being under the age of 21 years and studying were associated with perceptions reflecting poorer access to information (V =.20 and V =.13, respectively) and well‐being support (V =.15 and V =.13, respectively). Being supported by a third party to complete the survey was consistently related to perceptions of worse outcomes. Conclusions: The study yielded data on the perceptions of people with IDD regarding the effects that COVID‐19 and the subsequent lockdown have had on their lives. Suggestions on how to overcome the difficulties reported and future lines of research are discussed.
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