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ERIC Number: EJ1350947
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Jun
Pages: 10
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1934-9491
EISSN: EISSN-1934-9556
Direct Support Professionals: Stress and Resiliency amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
Sheppard-Jones, Kathy; Kleinert, Harold; Butler, Laura; Li, Jian; Moseley, Emily; Adams, Chithra
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, v60 n3 p246-255 Jun 2022
This study reports on the results of an online survey of direct support professionals (DSPs) during the COVID-19 pandemic in June 2020 to measure their perceived quality of life, stressors, coping/resilience skills, and knowledge of health care rights directly related to the pandemic for the persons that they support. Specifically, we examined direct support workers' perceptions of their quality of life, levels of stress, and their self-reported resilience skills. We found that perceived stress was strongly correlated with both self-reported quality of life and resilience, but not with years of DSP experience. Moreover, while DSPs overwhelmingly knew and affirmed health care rights for people with disabilities, they were less knowledgeable about their legal rights during hospital stays.
American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. P.O. Box 1897, Lawrence, KS 66044-1897. Tel: 785-843-1235; Fax: 785-843-1274; e-mail: AJMR@allenpress.com; Web site: https://meridian.allenpress.com/aaidd
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
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Language: English
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