Violence against people with disabilites: variations by impairment type, gender and socio-economic status in an australian population-based study

Abstract

Recent international meta-analyses show that children and adults with disabilities are more likely to experience interpersonal violence than those without disabilities. People with disabilities are a heterogeneous group, and further work is required to determine the variations in the experience of violence by impairment type. It is also important to assess the extent to which any between-group differences may be explained by socio-economic situation. We analysed the 2015 Australian Bureau of Statistics Survey on Personal Safety of more than 21,000 adults. We used population-weighted, age-adjusted, logistic regression to estimate the odds of violence in the last 12 months by impairment type a..