Attitudes of health care professionals toward people with intellectual disability: a comparison with the general population

Morin, Diane; Valois, Philippe; Crocker, Anne G.; Robitaille, C.; Lopes, Tânia

doi:10.1111/jir.12510

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“…In other research (Morin et al . ), the ATTID long form was able to differentiate health care professionals from the general population, showing that the professionals had more positive attitudes towards people with ID and that the more contact they had with them, the more positive their attitudes were.…”

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Development and psychometric properties of the Attitudes Toward Intellectual Disability Questionnaire – Short Form

Morin

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J intellect Disabil Res

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Background Understanding public attitudes towards people with intellectual disability (ID) can help orient activities to promote the social inclusion of this group. The ATTitudes toward Intellectual Disability (ATTID) questionnaire is a validated 67-item tool used to assess attitudes towards people with ID from a multidimensional perspective. It is based on a five-factor model tapping into cognitive, emotional and behavioural components of attitudes. In order to facilitate international research, the goal of this study was to develop a short version that would retain the long form's psychometric properties. Methods Analyses were conducted on a sample of 1608 respondents who completed the full-length ATTID. A four-step test refinement procedure was used to reduce the number of items. The first two steps involved a Cronbach's alpha analysis. Items retained were then reviewed to assess face validity. Correlations between factors were calculated, and a factor analysis was performed to compare the original and short forms. Results The number of items in the ATTID was reduced from 67 to 35. The short form maintained good overall reliability. The correlational pattern between factors in both the long and short form is generally the same. The factor analysis of the short form showed a similar five-factor structure with some loss of variance. Conclusions We recommend the short form be used when administration time is an issue, particularly in a research context. Replication studies with new samples are needed to further assess the psychometric properties of the ATTID-Short Form.

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“…The original ATTID has been used in recently published studies (Morin et al . , , ; Murch et al . ; Phillips et al .…”

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Development and psychometric properties of the Attitudes Toward Intellectual Disability Questionnaire – Short Form

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J intellect Disabil Res

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“…Previous studies also showed that healthcare professionals who reported less experience expressed more discomfort in dealing with persons with disabilities. 9,11 The limitations of this study should be noted. The questionnaire was administered to healthcare professionals in tertiary university hospitals.…”

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“…3,4 These attitudes or actions should be minimized or removed from people working in the healthcare system, because they can negatively influence the quality of medical care, especially in rehabilitation settings. 1,[5][6][7][8][9][10][11] Training or education programs to improve these attitudes require measurement tools to identify the initial status and changes after the interventions. 6 Moreover, understanding healthcare professionals' attitudes toward persons with disability by using these tools and identifying the factors associated with the attitudes could be helpful in designing the educational programs.…”

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Development and validation of a scale to assess the attitude of healthcare professionals toward persons with disability

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Clin Rehabil

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Objective: This study aimed to develop and validate an instrument that measures the attitudes of healthcare professionals toward persons with disabilities. Design: The Delphi survey consensus method was used to compose a preliminary questionnaire for survey. Then, healthcare professionals responded to the questionnaire online, and the results were used for psychometric analysis. Setting: Three tertiary hospitals. Subjects: A total of 993 healthcare professionals. Interventions: Not applicable. Main measures: Attitudes of healthcare professionals toward persons with disabilities. Results: A 28-item preliminary questionnaire was initially developed after a two-round Delphi survey with 16 experts. Through an online survey, the final 20 items were categorized as follows: behaviors in clinical situation, knowledge and skills, emotional response, and responsibility of healthcare professionals. The Cronbach’s alpha coefficient for the total score was 0.890 and varied between 0.856 and 0.892 in the four subdomains. The newly developed tool showed an acceptable model fit. Healthcare professionals who participated in an education module showed higher scores in behavior and knowledge/skills subdomains than those who did not, whereas participants who had clinical experience with persons with disabilities demonstrated higher scores in emotional response and knowledge/skills subdomains. Conclusions: We developed a scale to measure the attitudes toward persons with disabilities of healthcare professionals. The scale demonstrated a sensitivity to measure a difference by participation in an education module or clinical experience with persons with disabilities.

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“…We can, however, extrapolate from them medical attitudes regarding ID-especially when they are confirmed by research likeKlein (2011) andSkotko (2011). Also seeMorin (2018),Ormond (2003), Pelleboer-Gunnink (2017), andRyan and Scior (2014).…”

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Culpable Ignorance, Professional Counselling, and Selective Abortion of Intellectual Disability

Gould

2020

Bioethical Inquiry

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In this paper I argue that selective abortion for disability often involves inadequate counselling on the part of reproductive medicine professionals who advise prospective parents. I claim that prenatal disability clinicians often fail in intellectual duty-they are culpably ignorant about intellectual disability (or do not disclose known facts to parents). First, I explain why a standard motivation for selective abortion is flawed. Second, I summarize recent research on parent experience with prenatal professionals. Third, I outline the notions of epistemic excellence and deficiency. Fourth, I defend culpable ignorance as the best explanation of inadequate disability counselling. Fifth, I rebut alternative explanations. My focus is pregnancies diagnosed with mild or moderate intellectual disability.

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Attitudes of health care professionals toward people with intellectual disability: a comparison with the general population

Cited by 27 publications

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Development and psychometric properties of the Attitudes Toward Intellectual Disability Questionnaire – Short Form

Development and psychometric properties of the Attitudes Toward Intellectual Disability Questionnaire – Short Form

Development and validation of a scale to assess the attitude of healthcare professionals toward persons with disability

Culpable Ignorance, Professional Counselling, and Selective Abortion of Intellectual Disability

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