What is it about?
The study assesses the support needs of individuals with intellectual disability and their families in Catalonia. The present authors examine family quality of life (FQoL), identify the individual services required and assess families’ perceptions of the extent to which their family member with intellectual disability and they themselves receive the services they need. The N&S questionnaire (Needs and Supports for people with intellectual disability and their families) was administered to 2160 families with a family member with intellectual disability aged under 70 in Catalonia (Spain). Overall mean FQoL was quite high. FQoL was associated with family income, education, employment and percentage level of disability. Neither people with intellectual disability nor their families receive the specific support they need. Besides providing specific support for individuals with intellectual disability, local policymakers and practitioners should apply a family- centred approach to the provision of support for families in order to improve FQoL.
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Why is it important?
It is a large amount of participants, a questionaire was administered to 2,160 families with a member with ID aged under 70 in Catalonia (Spain).
Perspectives
To provide support for individuals with Intelectual disability it is very important but it is not enought, because we think that local policy-makers and practitioners should apply a family-centered approach and give support for families in order to improve Family Quality of life.
Dr Rosa M. Vilaseca
Universitat de Barcelona
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This page is a summary of: Needs and Supports of People with Intellectual Disability and Their Families in Catalonia, Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, September 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/jar.12215.
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