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Secondary Conditions in Youth with Disabilities

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Healthy People 2010 (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 2000, Chap. 6, Disability and Secondary Conditions) identifies secondary conditions as “medical, social, emotional, family, or community problems that a person with a primary disabling condition likely experiences,” which includes physical and psychological conditions that might emerge following primary disability but which also includes the impact of attitudes of other people on primary and secondary disabilities. In the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) 2007 report,The Future of Disability in America, secondary condition risk is dependent on an individual’s primary disabling condition and therefore the risk of secondary conditions will differ among people. The IOM report also points out that behavior, lifestyle, and biological factors for a particular individual can affect the potential for developing participation restrictions, activity limitations, or additional impairments as a result of a particular secondary condition. The purpose of this chapter is to: (1) explore the variability in secondary condition definitions, (2) identify the types of secondary conditions published in the peer-reviewed literature for specific populations of youth, and (3) discuss the importance of secondary condition prevention efforts in improving quality of life for children and youth with disabilities.

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Abbreviations

ADHD:

Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

BMI:

Body Mass Index

CINAHL:

Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature

ERIC:

Educational Resources Information Center (Rockville, MD)

ID:

Intellectual Disability

IOM:

Institute of Medicine

NHANES:

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

PubMed:

Publications in Medicine (US National Library of Medicine)

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    Jennifer L. Rowland Ph.D., PT, MPH

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Rowland, J. (2012). Secondary Conditions in Youth with Disabilities. In: Hollar, D. (eds) Handbook of Children with Special Health Care Needs. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2335-5_17

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