What is it about?

Disability and dependence (lack of autonomy in performing common everyday actions) affect health status and quality of life; therefore they are significant public health issues. The main purpose of this study is to use classical multi-dimensional scaling techniques to design dependence profiles for Spanish children between 3 and 6 years old.

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Why is it important?

There are many studies about dependence when people are over 65 years old; however, concerning children, there is a lack of research. This study contributes to this line. With our proposal we can establish four profiles for Spanish dependent children between 3 and 6 years old that do not exactly coincide with those that may be established by directly applying Spanish law. Indeed, we find that the Spanish dependence rating scale is not adequate for properly measuring the severity of the situation of dependence, since there is not a one-to-one correspondence between the time that is devoted to care-dependent children and the dependence rating scale.

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This page is a summary of: Profile identification via weighted related metric scaling: an application to dependent Spanish children, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society), October 2014, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/rssa.12084.
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