Landes Scott D, Hall Jean P, Swenor Bonnielin K, Vaitsiakhovich Nastassia
Department of Sociology and Aging Studies Institute, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America.
Institute for Health & Disability Policy Studies and Research & Training Center on Independent Living, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2025 Jan 31;20(1):e0318745. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0318745. eCollection 2025.
Researchers and federal agencies are currently discussing the best way to measure disability in US federal surveys. One idea being discussed is expanding/supplementing the question sets commonly used to capture disability status in order to better capture a broader segment of the disabled population. We used data from the 2010-2018 National Health Interview Survey to examine the performance of questions commonly used to measure disability in the US-the ACS-6 and Washington Group Short Set questions-in capturing intellectual and developmental disabilities, mental health disabilities, and physical health disabilities. We found that neither set of disability questions was sufficient to fully capture these disability statuses. We contend that current disability questions used in US population surveys must be expanded/supplemented in order to increase the inclusiveness of disability measurement, and thereby, improve efforts to reduce disparities experienced by the disabled population.
研究人员和联邦机构目前正在讨论在美国联邦调查中衡量残疾情况的最佳方法。正在讨论的一个想法是扩展/补充通常用于获取残疾状况的问题集，以便更好地涵盖更广泛的残疾人群体。我们使用了2010 - 2018年国家健康访谈调查的数据，来检验美国常用的衡量残疾情况的问题——美国社区调查6项问题（ACS - 6）和华盛顿小组简短问题集——在捕捉智力和发育障碍、心理健康障碍以及身体健康障碍方面的表现。我们发现，这两组残疾问题都不足以完全捕捉这些残疾状况。我们认为，美国人口调查中目前使用的残疾问题必须加以扩展/补充，以提高残疾衡量的包容性，从而改进为减少残疾人群体所经历的差异而做出的努力。
