Exploring therapeutic alliance in spinal cord injury rehabilitation: Control, identity, and liminality.

Background: The therapeutic alliance (TA) has emerged as a key principle in enhancing the quality of health and rehabilitation services.

Purpose: This study aimed to explore patient perspectives on the influence of TAs with practitioners during inpatient rehabilitation following spinal cord injury (SCI).

Methods: Using a qualitative methodology, ( = 18) in-depth interviews were conducted with inpatient participants.

Maternal healthcare for women with physical disabilities in Northern Vietnam: perspectives of healthcare providers.

Background: Pregnancy among women with physical disabilities is common around the world; however, there are limited qualitative studies that explore the perspectives of healthcare providers toward pregnant women with disabilities outside of the Global North.

Objective: This article explores perspectives and experiences of maternal healthcare providers in the delivery of services to women with physical disabilities in Northern Vietnam.

Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 healthcare providers who worked in public and/or private healthcare North Vietnamese facilities where maternal services were provided.

Whose decision? Caesarean section and women with physical disabilities in Northern Vietnam: A qualitative study.

Background: Pregnant women with physical disabilities are more likely to have caesarean sections than are women without disabilities. For some women with disabilities, caesarean birth may not be clinically necessary, as they may lack autonomy in decision-making to a greater extent than is the case for other pregnant women.

Objective: To explore the relative influence of health staff, family, friends, and the women themselves on key decisions about childbirth of women with physical disabilities in northern Vietnam.

"Under great anxiety": Pregnancy experiences of Vietnamese women with physical disabilities seen through an intersectional lens.

Background: There is scant research on pregnancy experiences of women with physical disabilities in low and middle-income countries. This qualitative study used an intersectional lens to explore pregnancy experiences of women with physical disabilities in northern Vietnam. Specifically, socio-cultural, economic, and environmental influences were analysed, drawing upon their lived experiences.

"Nothing suitable for us": experiences of women with physical disabilities in accessing maternal healthcare services in Northern Vietnam.

Purpose: This article explores how maternal healthcare access was experienced by women with physical disabilities in Northern Vietnam.

Methods: A qualitative methodology with an interpretive phenomenological design was used. In-depth interviews were conducted with women with physical disabilities who had given birth in the previous three years.

Addressing transport safety and accessibility for people with a disability in developing countries: a formative evaluation of the Journey Access Tool in Cambodia.

Background: The intersection between health, disability and transport has significant practical challenges for people with a disability living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where road infrastructure is poor and travel unsafe. Lack of transport access to health, education, employment and other services impedes achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and affects quality of life. The Journey Access Tool (JAT) combines access audit and road safety audit approaches to identify barriers to transport on journeys taken by people with a disability.

Stress and burnout amongst professional carers of people with intellectual disability: another health inequity.

Purpose Of Review: This paper summarizes trends in the research literature about stress and burnout in the lives of people who are the professional carers of people with intellectual disability. The principal time period considered was from 2004 to 2006.

Recent Findings: Studies reviewed here focus on several themes including inequities affecting professional carers of people with intellectual disability and the possible effects of some models of care on inequities.

Prevalence of intellectual disability and comorbid mental illness in an Australian community sample.

Objective: The aim of this study was to bring to light the high prevalence of Australians affected by intellectual disability and comorbid serious mental illnesses. Results from a broad scale study are used to explore the reasons for this regularly overlooked phenomenon.

Methods: This study was based on secondary analysis of data collected in the national 'Disability, Ageing and Carers Survey, 1998'.