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- Title
Effectiveness of the IMPACT:Ability Program to Improve Safety and Self-Advocacy Skills in High School Students With Disabilities.
- Authors
Dryden, Eileen M.; Desmarais, Jeffery; Arsenault, Lisa
- Abstract
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Individuals with disabilities experience higher rates of abuse than the nondisabled. Few evidence-based prevention interventions have been published despite a need for such work. This study evaluated IMPACT:Ability, a safety and self-advocacy training for individuals with cognitive and/or physical disabilities. METHODS A quasi-experimental design was used to assess change in safety and self-advocacy knowledge, confidence, and behaviors among special education high school students in Boston, MA. Instruments were interviewer-administered at 3 time points. Analysis of covariance ( ANCOVA) was used to compare change between the intervention (N = 21) and wait-list (N = 36) groups. Repeated measures analysis was used to test change in the complete sample (N = 57). RESULTS Students were diverse (58% males, 82% nonwhite) with a range of disabilities. Significantly greater improvement in key outcomes, including safety and self-advocacy knowledge, confidence, and behavior, were observed in intervention students compared to the wait-list group. Results in the complete sample showed evidence of further improvements in students' sense of safety and general self-efficacy. CONCLUSIONS These findings are encouraging given the effects were demonstrated in a heterogeneous urban population. IMPACT:Ability may be an effective safety and self-advocacy training for students with disabilities. Further research will be required to determine effectiveness within particular subpopulations of students.
- Subjects
MASSACHUSETTS; ANALYSIS of covariance; CHILDREN'S accident prevention; COGNITION disorders; CONFIDENCE; STUDENTS with disabilities; HEALTH education; HIGH school students; INTERVIEWING; RESEARCH methodology; RESEARCH funding; SCALE analysis (Psychology); SPECIAL education; STUDENT attitudes; STUDENT health; T-test (Statistics); SELF advocacy; HEALTH literacy; EVALUATION of human services programs; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ADOLESCENCE
- Publication
Journal of School Health, 2014, Vol 84, Issue 12, p793
- ISSN
0022-4391
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/josh.12211