links 07/29/2010

• ERIC - Education Resources Information Center

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links 07/22/2010

• Disability Identity and Attitudes Toward Cure in a Sample of Disabled Activists — Journal of Health and Social Behavior

  people want improvements in their functional abilities, or complete cures. Contrary to this assumption, many disabled activists are found to have attitudes in which they refuse treatment that promises a cure. In order to explain this attitude, different sources of disability identity are isolated as potential predictor variables. A multivariate model reveals that self-identity related to a personal affirmation of disability is a significant predictor of refusal of treatment, as is the age of onset of disability. Implications for interactions with medical professionals and utility-based modeling of medical treatment seeking are discussed.

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