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Safe at home? Factors influencing the safety strategies used by people with intellectual disability Cover

Safe at home? Factors influencing the safety strategies used by people with intellectual disability

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Open Access
|Apr 2014

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Table 1.

Background and characteristics of people participating in the study.

GenderMale12Female8CultureAboriginal and Torres Strait IslanderNone knownCultural and Linguistically Diverse BackgroundNone knownAge26–35536–45746–608Additional disability (all had intellectual disability)Physical5Sensory1Communication3Psychosocial3BackgroundGrew up with family16aGrew up with significant period in care environment4Current supportNo paid support6Receiving small amounts of paid support (weekly or twice weekly)9Living in a group home or similar with >12 hrs paid support/day5Current housingSocial housing9Community housing1Boarding house/hostel2Group home3Private own/rental3Family home2HousematesLive alone12Sharing with someone not of your choice5Sharing with someone of your choice1Living with family2

a Several people did not discuss their background in detail, and we did not press them. We have assumed, based on conversation, that they did not grow up in care environments.

Language: English
Page range: 99 - 113
Submitted on: Sep 3, 2012
Accepted on: Jan 17, 2013
Published on: Apr 2, 2014
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2014 Sally Robinson, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.