Employment and attendance in day care centres for people with mild intellectual disabilities – do age, gender, functional level or hospital admissions matter?

Abstract

Background Workforce inclusion is an important political goal in many countries. However, nearly 70% of Norwegians registered with mild intellectual disabilities (IDs) are not registered employed or attending in day care centres. This study investigates the association between age, gender, functional level and hospital admissions with employment or attendance in public financed, community-based day care centres for adults with mild IDs in Norway. Method This study is based on data from a linkage of the national population-based registries from 2013 to 2015: Statistics Norway (SSB), the Norwegian Information System for the Nursing and Care Sector (IPLOS) and the Norwegian Patient Registry (NPR). The sample consisted of 2370 adults registered with a mild ID, receiving disability pension in Norway, aged 18-67 years. Binary and multinomial logistic analyses, adjusted for age, gender, functional level and hospital admissions, were performed. J. Engeland et al. • Registry study on employment and day care for people with mild ID

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“…Deciding which variables to include in the final model based solely on significance after univariate analysis can lead to bias and increase the risk of capitalising on chance features of the data (Judd & McClelland, 1989). Instead, the inclusion of variables in the final model was based on our initial hypothesis grounded in previous research (Engeland et al, 2020;Foley et al, 2014;Martorell et al, 2008;Modini et al, 2016;Stephens et al, 2005).…”

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