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ArticleHealth affairs (Project Hope)2021

Physicians' Perceptions Of People With Disability And Their Health Care.

Lisa I Iezzoni, Sowmya R Rao, Julie Ressalam, Dragana Bolcic-Jankovic, Nicole D Agaronnik, Karen Donelan, Tara Lagu, Eric G Campbell

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Article in Health affairs (Project Hope), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07609238 (A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Training Programs Designed to Improve Awareness, Attitudes, and Empathy Toward Individuals With Disabilities in Nursing Students), which is not on this map. Cited by 213 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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NCT07609238 nanot yet recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2026, after this paper: background citation

A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Training Programs Designed to Improve Awareness, Attitudes, and Empathy Toward Individuals With Disabilities in Nursing Students

TypeinterventionalSponsorBaskent UniversityRan2026 to 2027Enrolled66ConditionsSimulation Training, Students, Nursing, Attitude, Empathy SkillsArmsDisability Awareness Education, Virtual Reality Group, Standart Patient Group
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Lisa I IezzoniLisa I. Iezzoni (liezzoni@mgh.harvard.edu) is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, based at the Health Policy Research Center, Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston, Massachusetts.
Sowmya R RaoSowmya R. Rao is a statistician in the Biostatistics Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and at the Boston University School of Public Health.
Julie RessalamJulie Ressalam is a senior research coordinator in the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado, in Aurora, Colorado.
Dragana Bolcic-JankovicDragana Bolcic-Jankovic is the director of survey operations and a research fellow in the Center for Survey Research at the University of Massachusetts Boston, in Boston, Massachusetts.
Nicole D AgaronnikNicole D. Agaronnik is a medical student at Harvard Medical School. When this work was performed, she was a research assistant in the Mongan Institute Health Policy Center, Massachusetts General Hospital.
Karen DonelanKaren Donelan is the Stuart H. Altman Chair in U.S. Health Policy at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, in Waltham, Massachusetts. At the time this work was performed, she was a senior scientist at the Health Policy Research Center at the Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, and an associate professor in the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Tara LaguTara Lagu is an associate professor in the Institute for Healthcare Delivery and Population Science and the Department of Medicine at Baystate Health and the University of Massachusetts Medical School, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Eric G CampbellEric G. Campbell is a professor and director of research in the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado.

Funding

Surveying Physicians to Understand Health Care Disparities Affecting Persons with Disability and Identify Approaches to Improve Their CareR01HD091211 · NICHD · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI IEZZONI, LISA I. · 2018 to 2020
$1.7M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD091211
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

More than sixty-one million Americans have disabilities, and increasing evidence documents that they experience health care disparities. Although many factors likely contribute to these disparities, one little-studied but potential cause involves physicians' perceptions of people with disability. In our survey of 714 practicing US physicians nationwide, 82.4 percent reported that people with significant disability have worse quality of life than nondisabled people. Only 40.7 percent of physicians were very confident about their ability to provide the same quality of care to patients with disability, just 56.5 percent strongly agreed that they welcomed patients with disability into their practices, and 18.1 percent strongly agreed that the health care system often treats these patients unfairly. More than thirty years after the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 was enacted, these findings about physicians' perceptions of this population raise questions about ensuring equitable care to people with disability. Potentially biased views among physicians could contribute to persistent health care disparities affecting people with disability.

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Persons with DisabilitiesPhysiciansAttitude of Health PersonnelHealthcare DisparitiesHumansPerceptionQuality of LifeUnited States

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PMID33523739
PMCPMC8722582

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