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ArticleQuality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation2025

The relative importance of key life domains for people with disability: findings from a cross-sectional survey of NDIS participants in Australia.

Samia Badji, Dennis Petrie, Anthony Harris, Gang Chen

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Article in Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Psychometric evaluation of the Disability Wellbeing Index (DWI) against the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) among people with disability.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2026
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Samia BadjiCentre for Health Economics, Monash University, 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East, VIC, 3145, Australia. Samia.badji@monash.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7352-0232
Dennis PetrieCentre for Health Economics, Monash University, 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East, VIC, 3145, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3882-2531
Anthony HarrisCentre for Health Economics, Monash University, 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East, VIC, 3145, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1641-3320
Gang ChenCentre for Health Economics, Monash University, 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East, VIC, 3145, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8385-5965

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purposeThis study investigates the relative importance for people with disability of key life domains and whether this differs between young people (15-24) and adults (25 and over).

methodsA cross-sectional survey was conducted from 20 October to 31 December 2022 with National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) participants asked to rank eight domains: Choice & control, Daily living, Relationships, Home, Health & wellbeing, Lifelong learning, Work, Social, Community and Civic participation. Based on a random utility framework, the data were analysed based on a ranked-ordered logit model to estimate preference shares for the order of preferences across domains. Analyses were conducted separately for the young and adult cohorts. Sensitivity analyses were conducted by relaxing the equal importance of NDIS domains in the ranking exercise based on related life domain importance rating information, which was also collected in the survey.

resultsOur sample consisted of 1140 NDIS participants. While the majority ranked the domains as equally important, answers from the rating module suggested otherwise. Adjustments for these differences lead to similar results with both age cohorts ranking Health & Wellbeing, Home and Daily living as the most important domains. These were followed by Relationships, Choice & control, Social, Community & Civic participation, Lifelong learning, and Work for younger people. For older people the importance order between the Choice & control and Relationships was switched.

conclusionOur results revealed similarity between what younger and older people perceive as important and despite often receiving a fair share of policy attention, work was seen, on average, as the least important life domain.

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Persons with DisabilitiesQuality of LifeActivities of Daily LivingAdolescentAdultAgedAged, 80 and overAustraliaCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedSurveys and QuestionnairesYoung AdultDisabilityLife domainsPreference sharesRanking

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