Performance of the Washington Group questions in measuring blindness and deafness.

Autor:	Landes SD; Department of Sociology and Aging Studies Institute, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, United States., Swenor BK; Disability Health Research Center, School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, United States., Hall JP; Institute for Health & Disability Policy Studies and Research & Training Center on Independent Living, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, United States.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Health affairs scholar [Health Aff Sch] 2024 Oct 15; Vol. 2 (11), pp. qxae131. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Oct 15 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI:	10.1093/haschl/qxae131
Abstrakt:	The Washington Group Short Set (WGSS) questions are intended to measure the severity of disability and disability status in US federal surveys. We used data from the 2010-2018 National Health Interview Survey to examine the performance of the WGSS visual disability and hearing disability questions in capturing blindness and deafness. We found that the WGSS questions failed to capture 35.7% of blind adults and 43.7% of deaf respondents as having a severe disability, or, per their recommended cut point, as being disabled. Coupled with evidence demonstrating the poor performance of the WGSS questions in estimating the size of the overall disability population, we contend that results from this study necessitate a halt in the use of the WGSS questions to measure disability in US federal surveys. Competing Interests: Please see ICMJE form(s) for author conflicts of interest. These have been provided as supplementary materials. (© The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Project HOPE - The People-To-People Health Foundation, Inc.)
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