Irvin-Erickson Yasemin, Shariati Auzeen
George Mason University, Department of Criminology, Law, and Society, 354 Enterprise Hall, 4400 University Drive, MS 4F4, Fairfax, VA, 22030, United States.
George Mason University, Department of Criminology, Law, and Society, United States.
Disabil Health J. 2025 Jan;18(1):101710. doi: 10.1016/j.dhjo.2024.101710. Epub 2024 Sep 24.
Studies on the emotional well-being of individuals with disabilities during the Covid-19 pandemic focused on the beginning of the pandemic and omitted the experiences of victims with disabilities.
We compared socio-emotional problems experienced by victims of violence with and without disabilities before and during the Covid-19 pandemic.
We conducted regression analysis using data from the National Crime Victimization Survey to examine the differences in socio-emotional problems experienced by violent crime victims with and without disabilities before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. We conducted descriptive analyses to explore patterns of receiving victim services.
Male victims without disabilities had lower odds of socio-emotional problems than female and male victims with disabilities before and throughout the pandemic. Female victims with disabilities had higher odds of socio-emotional problems than male victims with disabilities and female victims without disabilities before and during the first year of the pandemic. After the first year of the pandemic, female victims with and without disabilities and male victims with disabilities had no significant differences in their odds of experiencing socio-emotional problems. A higher percentage of victims received services during the pandemic in comparison to these patterns before the pandemic. After the first year of the pandemic, there was a notable increase in the percentage of female victims with and without disabilities and percentage of male victims with disabilities receiving victim services.
Our findings underline the disproportionate effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on socio-emotional well-being of victims with disabilities and especially female victims with disabilities.
关于新冠疫情期间残疾人士情绪健康的研究集中在疫情初期，忽略了残疾受害者的经历。
我们比较了新冠疫情之前和期间有残疾与无残疾暴力受害者所经历的社会情感问题。
我们使用全国犯罪受害调查的数据进行回归分析，以检验新冠疫情之前和期间有残疾与无残疾暴力犯罪受害者所经历的社会情感问题的差异。我们进行描述性分析以探索接受受害者服务的模式。
在疫情之前及整个期间，无残疾男性受害者出现社会情感问题的几率低于有残疾的男性和女性受害者。在疫情的第一年之前及期间，有残疾女性受害者出现社会情感问题的几率高于有残疾男性受害者和无残疾女性受害者。疫情第一年之后，有残疾和无残疾的女性受害者以及有残疾的男性受害者在出现社会情感问题的几率上没有显著差异。与疫情之前的这些模式相比，疫情期间接受服务的受害者比例更高。在疫情的第一年之后，有残疾和无残疾的女性受害者以及有残疾的男性受害者接受受害者服务的比例显著增加。
我们的研究结果强调了新冠疫情对残疾受害者尤其是残疾女性受害者的社会情感健康产生的不成比例的影响。
