Violence against people with disability in England and Wales: findings from a national cross-sectional survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The recent World Report on Disability highlighted violence as a leading cause of morbidity among disabled people. However, we know little about the extent to which people with disability experience different violence types, and associated health/economic costs. The recent introduction of disability measures into the England&Wales victimization survey provided an opportunity to address this gap.

Methods and findings

Analysis of the 2009/10 British Crime Survey (BCS), a nationally representative cross-sectional survey of 44,398 adults living in residential households in England&Wales. Using multivariate logistic regression, we estimated the relative odds of being a victim of past-year violence (physical/sexual domestic or non-domestic violence) in people with disabi

SUBMITTER: Khalifeh H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3577814 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature