Adults with Communication Disabilities Experience Poorer Health and Healthcare Outcomes Compared to Persons Without Communication Disabilities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Persons with speech, language, and/or voice disabilities (collectively referred to as communication disabilities (CD)) represent 10% of the US population, yet their healthcare outcomes have not been described. Generally, research shows that persons with disabilities have poorer health and healthcare outcomes than their non-disabled peers.

Objectives

To examine the health and healthcare outcomes of persons with CD compared to persons without CD.

Design

Retrospective cohort study of the 2012 National Health Interview Survey, which contained the first supplemental questions on CD. We compared proportional differences in outcomes; logistic and ordered logistic regression assessed the outcome measures across CD categories, controlling for demographics, non-commu

SUBMITTER: Stransky ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6258615 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature