title: The influence of supports strategies, environmental factors, and client characteristics on quality of life-related personal outcomes.
abstract: The concept of quality of life (QOL) is increasingly being used as a support provision and outcomes evaluation framework in the field of intellectual disability (ID). The present study used a hierarchical multiple regression research design to determine the role that available supports strategies, environmental factors, and client characteristics play in assessed quality of life-related personal outcomes. Data were collected in Arduin Foundation in The Netherlands. Participants were 186 individuals with an intellectual disability. Results indicated that QOL-outcomes were significantly impacted by the availability of support strategies, living arrangement, status of employment and level of ID.
authors.affiliation: University College Ghent/Ghent University, Gent, Belgium. Claudia.claes@hogent.be
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Claes
authors.forename: Geert
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Van Hove
authors.forename: Stijn
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vandevelde
authors.forename: Jos
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: van Loon
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schalock
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004777:Environment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009426:Netherlands; D011788:Quality of Life