ReviewJournal of occupational rehabilitation2022
Unravelling the Complexities of Workplace Disclosure Among Persons with Non-Visible Disabilities and Illnesses: A Qualitative Meta-Ethnography.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Navigating Discomfort: The Role of Negative Affect in Requesting Workplace Accommodations for Employees with Disabilities in the United States.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Doing Qualitative Workplace Relationship Research: Current Trends, New Directions, and Quality Indicators.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Living and working through health uncertainty: An analytic autoethnography of identity, strain, and future-making.Qualitative research in medicine & healthcare · 2026Article
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- Navigating the Impact of Discrimination: Exploring the Experiences of Sex/Gender Minoritised Youth With Disabilities.Child: care, health and development · 2025Article
- Facing the paradox of professionalizing peer roles in MH services: how addressing self-disclosure with self-determination theory might help.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2025Article
- Poverty alleviation policies, programs and practices for people with disabilities: A scoping review and recommendations.PloS one · 2025Article
- "I Wish This Tool Was Available to Me Sooner": Piloting a Workplace Autism Disclosure Decision-Aid Tool for Autistic Youth and Young Adults.Autism in adulthood · 2024Article
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- A Codeveloped Web-Based Disability Disclosure Toolkit for Youth With Disabilities: Mixed Methods Pilot Evaluation.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
- Development and Usability Testing of a Web-Based Workplace Disability Disclosure Decision Aid Tool for Autistic Youth and Young Adults: Qualitative Co-design Study.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
- The Role of Shame, Stigma, and Family Communication Patterns in the Decision to Disclose STIs to Parents in Order to Seek Support.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundDeciding whether and how to disclose a disability at work for persons with non-visible disabilities and illnesses involve complex processes. Research has focused on antecedents and outcomes of disclosure. More research is needed to understand the lived experiences related to disclosure decision-making and actual navigation of disclosure and concealment at work. PURPOSE: To understand the experiences of persons with non-visible disabilities and illnesses regarding workplace disclosure decision-making, navigating disclosure and/or concealment, and experiential differences across disability and illness types, ages, geographic locations, and genders.
methodsWe conducted a qualitative meta-synthesis using Noblit and Hare's seven steps of meta-ethnography. Searches were conducted via six databases. Studies were analyzed to develop conceptual categories, third-order constructs (themes), and a line-of-argument with comparisons drawn from the disclosure decision making model, disclosure process model, and consideration of disability and illness types, genders, ages, and geographic locations.
resultsTwenty-four studies were included involving 489 participants, aged 16 to 81, from nine countries, focusing on one non-visible disability or illness, or multiple. We developed four themes for the disclosure decision-making process (self- and other-focused, experiential, and environmental/workplace factors) and two themes for the disclosure/concealment event (disclosure/concealment logistics and timing) and noted emerging trends across ages, genders, disability and illness types, and geographic locations.
conclusionsKnowledge obtained could be used among professionals who support persons with non-visible disabilities and illnesses to help them navigate disclosure at work, and to consider the role of age, genders, disability and illness types, and geographic locations on disclosure.
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