Building on the review by Goldner et al., I argue that the first research tasks for disability management in Canada should be to articulate conceptual models; define promising disability management interventions and characterize the current longitudinal health and labour market trajectories of Canadians disabled by mental conditions. Research should next emphasize pilot studies of novel interve...

The aim of this article is to analyze the impact of two user interfaces a tactile interface and a computer mouse on a virtual environment allowing self-learning tasks as dishwashing by workers with mental deficiencies. We carried out an experiment within the context of a design project named “Apticap”. The methods used were an experiment, an identification questionnaire and a post-experimentati...

In the United States, "Amazingly little nationwide data [are] available from which [ mental retardation] program trends can be extrapolated and implications drawn.. .decisions on the allocation of public resources are made by national and state policy-makers based on little more than the most rudimentary assumptions about what is actually happening in the field" (The President's Committee on Me...

Objectives To examine the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in veterans of the Gulf war with or without unexplained physical disability (a proxy measure of ill health) and in similarly disabled veterans who had not been deployed to the Gulf war (non-Gulf veterans). Design Two phase cohort study. Setting Current and ex-service UK military personnel. Participants Phase 1 consisted of three rand...

Previous studies assessing protective effects of physical activity on depression have had conflicting results; one recent study argued that excluding disabled subjects attenuated any observed effects. The authors' objective was to compare the effects of higher levels of physical activity on prevalent and incident depression with and without exclusion of disabled subjects. Participants were 1,94...

BACKGROUND This paper outlines stakeholder views on environmental barriers that prevent people who live with psychosocial disability from participating in mental health policy development in South Africa. METHOD Fifty-six semi-structured interviews with national, provincial and local South African mental health stakeholders were conducted between August 2006 and August 2009. Respondents inclu...

OBJECTIVES To examine the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in veterans of the Gulf war with or without unexplained physical disability (a proxy measure of ill health) and in similarly disabled veterans who had not been deployed to the Gulf war (non-Gulf veterans). DESIGN Two phase cohort study. SETTING Current and ex-service UK military personnel. PARTICIPANTS Phase 1 consisted of thre...

the situation of people with disabilities in the developing countries should be a matter of great concern. there are today close to 250 million severely and moderately disabled persons in these countries; the annual increase is 10 million. most of them are poor, dependent neglected, excluded from education, training and jobs; they die early and have no power while alive. between 15 and 20% of a...

AIMS To evaluate a parental questionnaire as a means of providing outcome measures for a multicentre randomised controlled trial of treatment for post-haemorrhagic ventricular dilatation. METHODS The parents of 88 survivors were sent a questionnaire before a paediatric assessment at the age of 30 months. The parents' responses to individual questions taken mainly from the Griffiths' mental de...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the current status of disabled children and prevalence of disabilities in children aged 0-6 years and their risk factors, and to provide scientific evidence for making relevant policies for disabled children. METHODS In a community-based cross-sectional study, multi-phase, stratified, unequal proportional and cluster sampling was adopted to survey 60 124 children aged...