From: Factors associated with public attitudes towards persons with disabilities: a systematic review
Factors | Ref. | Instruments | Study population and setting | Results |
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Severity of conditions | [10] | ATTID | Participants:1605randomly selected adults Setting: Québec, Canada | Compared with higher functional intellectual disability, public attitudes toward people with lower functional tend to be more negative |
[18] | ADS | Participants: 1853 people with physical disability Setting: Guangzhou, China | Significantly negative correlation between the severity of disability and attitude towards disability | |
Type of disability | [29] | CATCHs, MAS | Participants:200 high school and 144 university students Setting: Nijmegen, Netherlands | Regarding the behavior and positive affect, respondents had more positive attitudes toward deaf, blind and paralyzed persons than toward intellectually disabled persons. Regarding the cognition and negative affect, respondents had more positive attitudes toward deaf and blind persons than toward paralyzed and intellectually disabled persons. |
[42] | The Teacher Integration Attitudes Questionnaire | Participants: Teachers of physical education (56) and music education (54) Setting: University of Kansas, United States | Children with emotional and behavioral disorders are considered less favorable by music education teachers, whereas children with orthopaedic disabilities are considered less favorable by teachers of physical education. | |
[38] | Students’ Attitudes toward People with a Disability Scale | Participants:406 secondary school students Setting: Hong Kong | Compared with people with physical, visual or hearing impairment, students had poorer attitudes toward people with intellectual impairment and ex-mentally ill. | |
[35] | A picture-ranking interview of specific physical disabilities | Participants: 54 children with craniofacial anomalies and 68 healthy children Setting: Negros, Philippines | (1) Girls show lower preference for obesity and higher preference for the arm-hand deformity. Boys, however, are more positive toward those in wheelchairs and less positive toward arm (2) Children with facial abnormalities have lower preferences than other physical disabilities. | |
[36] | SADP | Participants: 338 Chinese students in three Hong Kong secondary schools Setting: Hong Kong | Chinese students have higher ratings for physically disabled people than those with emotional disturbances or mental retardation | |
[30] | ATDP-Form B | Participants: 634 college students, and 234 healthcare professionals Setting: Tel Aviv University, Israel | The attitudes toward ill persons were more negative than attitudes toward injured persons, but reactions to the specific individuals presented in the vignettes were not affected by their being ill or injured. | |
Gender | [30] | ATDP-Form B | Participants: 634 college students, and 234 healthcare professionals Setting: Tel Aviv University, Israel | (1) Among students, gender of the disabled was unrelated to attitudes toward them (2) Among professionals, their attitudes toward male patients were more negative than toward female patients |