Comparison of able-bodied and spinal cord injured individuals' appraisals of disability.
cross_sectional · Level IV
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1038/sc.2012.169.
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Abstract
Survey. Compare views of disability in able-bodied and spinal cord-injured individuals. United States. A group of able-bodied individuals were asked to imagine that they had sustained a spinal cord injury (SCI), then complete the Appraisals of DisAbility: primary and secondary scale (ADAPSS) as if they were injured. The mean scores of able-bodied individuals on each of the six Subscales was compared with the mean scores of real spinal cord-injured individuals using t-tests of independent means. Responses of able-bodied individuals was significantly different from real SCI individuals on five of the six Subscales of the ADAPSS. Able-bodied individuals' appraisals of disability after imagined SCI are much more negative than the actual appraisals of disability in real spinal cord-injured individuals.
Medical subject headings
- Persons with Disabilities
- Imagination
- Spinal Cord Injuries