A survey involving professionals, families and young adults with disabilities
Within the framework of the Daphne Project “Children with disabilities and Violence: Primary prevention targeting families”, a survey was conducted concerning three distinct groups:
Young adults with disabilities (183 respondents)
Parents of children with disabilities (82 respondents)
Professionals providing services to children with disabilities and their families (115 respondents)

The countries involved were: Italy, Portugal, Latvia, Estonia and Greece. A different questionnaire was designed and translated into the relevant languages for each group. The questionnaires were administered by interviewers/facilitators trained for the purpose between September 2006 and March 2007.
Although the groups were different the questionnaires concerned similar issues, with the result that opinions regarding key issues and reciprocal expectations could be compared. The key issues include the impact of disability on the lives of people, the assessment of critical moments in family history, expectations and evaluation regarding professional support and its usefulness in coping with tension and stress, and the impact of the environment/society/media on the lives of people.
The project team is aware that strictly speaking the results only have any validity for the surveyed population. The size of the surveyed population and its heterogeneousness do not permit generalisations to be made. However, the aim of the survey was to collect suggestive feedback from the different groups concerning issues that lie at the heart of any prevention strategy that aims to tackle the development of stress in the families. As such the survey the purpose of the survey was limited to informing and underpinning the process of designing and writing information materials, including the booklet downloadable from this web site, and learning programmes for professionals working with families with children with disabilities.

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Further the project team has done research into good practice in primary prevention. Short case descriptions, many of them the outcomes of interviews, are available on this web site.

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