Measuring general hospital staff attitudes towards people with learning disabilities.
People with learning disabilities often experience health inequalities and barriers to healthcare services as a result of poor communication and discriminatory attitudes. We developed an educational package for healthcare staff as well as an attitude questionnaire to measure the impact of this training; the questionnaire is called the Attitudes of Secondary Healthcare Personnel Toward People with Severe Learning Disabilities (ASH-LD). This article describes the process of designing and piloting the ASH-LD questionnaire, and how it will be used to measure the effect of the planned training on staff attitudes.
Garvey
Frank
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Hertfordshire Adult Care Services.
Wigram
Tony
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Balakumar
Thanusha
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D000288:Administrative Personnel / Q000523:psychology; D001290:Attitude; D001294:Attitude to Health; D006801:Humans; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000628:therapy*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000592:standards; D010564:Personnel, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D006113:United Kingdom