Disabil Health J
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Adolescents with mobility impairments have fewer opportunities to challenge identity as an athlete through sport participation. ⋯ These findings support the notion that hours of time spent and preferred amount of time in sports participation influences athletic identity. Sport participation, when available can influence athletic identity with this population.
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Individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS) report fatigue, pain, depression, cognitive difficulties, and other symptoms. It is often difficult to compare symptoms across studies and populations because scales used to measure individual symptoms or quality of life indicators (QOLI) use different metrics and often do not provide norms. PROMIS and Neuro-QOL measures, developed with modern psychometric methods, use a common metric and provide population norms. ⋯ Individuals with MS report clinically meaningful worse health compared to the general population across multiple health related domains. Symptom profiles utilizing PROMIS or NeuroQoL measures can be used to quickly assess symptom levels in an individual or group.
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Persons with multiple chronic conditions and disability face access barriers to office-based primary care and have very high rates of emergency department (ED) use and hospital admissions. Home-based primary care (HBPC) has been proposed as a way to improve disease management and prevent health crises. ⋯ Provision of HBPC for persons with multiple chronic conditions and disability is associated with a persistent reduction in ED and hospital use.
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The internet is an important information source for people with disabilities. Unfortunately, little is known about the quality of online leisure time physical activity resources provided for people with physical disabilities. ⋯ This study highlights the concerning state of leisure time physical activity resources available online for people with physical disabilities. Based on the results of this study, recommendations are provided for resource developers to ensure newly developed resources are of higher technical quality.