Health professional student attitudes towards people with disability.

Objective: To investigate health professional student attitudes toward people with disability. It was hypothesized that attitude and comfort would differ by discipline. Further, it was hypothesized that factors such as gender and background in disability would influence these attitudes and their ease in dealing with difficult encounters in rehabilitation.

Medical students' attitudes toward persons with disability: a comparative study.

Objectives: To investigate first-year medical students' attitudes toward persons with disability and to examine whether gender and a background in disability determine attitudes toward persons with disability.

Design: A cross-sectional survey.

Setting: University settings in the United States and Canada.

Residential paraprofessionals' perceptions of and responses to work-related ethical dilemmas.

Paraprofessionals' awareness of possible ethical violations related to supporting consumers with mental retardation was evaluated. Eighty-one paraprofessionals from residential programs for adults with mental retardation responded to 10 vignettes describing hypothetical ethical violations. Results suggest that paraprofessionals recognized and recommended appropriate courses of action in response to ethical violations.