[People with intellectual disabilities (ID) in outpatient medical care: barriers to access and treatment process].

ABSTRACT:

Background and aim

People with intellectual disabilities (ID) show an increased morbidity. Their access to healthcare could be a contributing factor, but there is little data on this in Germany. This paper addresses the question of what barriers and facilitators exist in the use of medical outpatient healthcare for people with ID, considering their own perspective and the perspectives of their accompanying relatives and their general practitioners (GPs).

Methods

In this cross-sectional study, people with ID in three sheltered workshops, their relatives and their GPs were interviewed by means of questionnaires. The data were evaluated descriptively, and a statistical comparison of the perspectives of the people with ID and their relatives was performed. The content structure

SUBMITTER: Wellkamp R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9892072 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature