Journal article
Prevalence and correlates of disability in Bogra district of Bangladesh using the rapid assessment of disability survey Global health
M Marella, NL Huq, A Devine, SM Baker, MA Quaiyum, JE Keeffe
BMC Public Health | Published : 2015
Abstract
Background: The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of disability and its associated risk factors among adults aged 18 years and over in Bogra district, Bangladesh. Methods: The Rapid Assessment of Disability (RAD) survey was conducted using probability-proportional-to-size sampling to select 66 clusters each with 50 people aged 18 years and older in 2010. Households within clusters were selected through compact segment sampling. Disability was identified based on the responses to the self-assessment of functioning section of the RAD questionnaire. Descriptive and multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed to model the associations between risk factors and disabili..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The research project was funded by the Australian Government through the Australian Development Research Awards. The research is a collaboration between the University of Melbourne's Nossal Institute for Global Health and the Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA), and International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b). We would like to thank Beth Sprunt, Tanya Edmonds, Nicolas Goujon and Kathy Fotis for their support in the design and implementation of the project. We are particularly grateful to the many people who participated in this study as without their involvement, this stage of the development of the RAD questionnaire would not have been possible.