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How to measure multidimensional quality of life of persons with disabilities in public policies - a case of Poland

BACKGROUND: The aim of this paper is to construct a tool that can be used to measure multidimensional quality of life of persons with disabilities in comparison with population without disabilities for the purpose of monitoring of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD)...

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Autores principales: Grabowska, Izabela, Antczak, Radosław, Zwierzchowski, Jan, Panek, Tomasz
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9647975/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36357899
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-022-00981-5
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author Grabowska, Izabela
Antczak, Radosław
Zwierzchowski, Jan
Panek, Tomasz
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description BACKGROUND: The aim of this paper is to construct a tool that can be used to measure multidimensional quality of life of persons with disabilities in comparison with population without disabilities for the purpose of monitoring of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) in Poland. METHODS: The Sen’s capability approach was applied to conceptualize the quality of life in various life domains. We followed guidelines of The Quality of Life Framework developed within the European Statistical System on choosing the life domains in which the QoL should be measured. The QoL scores in each domain (covered by the UNCRPD) were constructed using multiply indicators and multiple causes model (MIMIC). All analysis were based on 2018 EU-SILC data for Poland. We constructed quality of life indicators for population with and without disabilities and compared the differences. RESULTS: Persons without disability experienced higher QoL as compared to population with disabilities, overall and in various domains. Lower average QoL of persons with disabilities is a result of a lower share of those who experience high QoL. The biggest difference is observed for health and for productive and main activity domains. For material conditions and economic security and physical safety there was a moderate difference recorded. For the leisure and social relations domain there is almost no difference observed. Additionally, we identified diversified associations between such factors as age, gender, household situation, education, partner status, urbanization, health on the QoL across domains and analysed populations. CONCLUSIONS: A tool developed in this paper can be calibrated to enable cross-country and in time comparisons between different populations and support evidenced-based social policy. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13690-022-00981-5.
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spelling pubmed-96479752022-11-15 How to measure multidimensional quality of life of persons with disabilities in public policies - a case of Poland Grabowska, Izabela Antczak, Radosław Zwierzchowski, Jan Panek, Tomasz Arch Public Health Research BACKGROUND: The aim of this paper is to construct a tool that can be used to measure multidimensional quality of life of persons with disabilities in comparison with population without disabilities for the purpose of monitoring of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) in Poland. METHODS: The Sen’s capability approach was applied to conceptualize the quality of life in various life domains. We followed guidelines of The Quality of Life Framework developed within the European Statistical System on choosing the life domains in which the QoL should be measured. The QoL scores in each domain (covered by the UNCRPD) were constructed using multiply indicators and multiple causes model (MIMIC). All analysis were based on 2018 EU-SILC data for Poland. We constructed quality of life indicators for population with and without disabilities and compared the differences. RESULTS: Persons without disability experienced higher QoL as compared to population with disabilities, overall and in various domains. Lower average QoL of persons with disabilities is a result of a lower share of those who experience high QoL. The biggest difference is observed for health and for productive and main activity domains. For material conditions and economic security and physical safety there was a moderate difference recorded. For the leisure and social relations domain there is almost no difference observed. Additionally, we identified diversified associations between such factors as age, gender, household situation, education, partner status, urbanization, health on the QoL across domains and analysed populations. CONCLUSIONS: A tool developed in this paper can be calibrated to enable cross-country and in time comparisons between different populations and support evidenced-based social policy. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13690-022-00981-5. BioMed Central 2022-11-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9647975/ /pubmed/36357899 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-022-00981-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9647975/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36357899
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-022-00981-5
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