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Hunter, Tameeka; Koch, Lynn; Lusk Smith, Stephanie; Hall, Andrea Hampton – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2022
Background: Emerging adults, the developmental period ranging from the late teens through the 20s, experience chronic pain at an estimated rate of 7.6%--14.3% and report greater pain interference (i.e., pain that disrupts daily life activities) than middle-aged or older adults. Chronic pain can interfere with the completion of developmental tasks…
Descriptors: Late Adolescents, Young Adults, Chronic Illness, Pain
Rumrill, Phillip D.; Koch, Lynn C.; Park, Mirang; Lee, Deborah; Bishop, Malachy L. – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2022
Purpose: Americans with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) represent an emerging vocational rehabilitation (VR) clientele. Method: Following an overview of the etiology, incidence, prevalence, and impact of RA, the authors present strategies to meet the service and support needs of Americans with RA across the phases of the VR process. Results: The…
Descriptors: Chronic Illness, Vocational Rehabilitation, COVID-19, Pandemics
Hill, Julie C.; Stokes, Lindsey E.; Higgins, Kristin K. – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2022
Purpose: People living with chronic illness face significant challenges with employment. This study explores the impact of participating in the Career Construction Interview (CCI) on the career exploration of individuals facing a forced career transition due to the onset or exacerbation of a chronic illness. Method: An instrumental multiple case…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Change, Chronic Illness, Decision Making
Wu, Jia Rung; Brooks, Jessica; Chan, Fong; Iwanaga, Kanako; Ditchman, Nicole; Chan, Ada; Lee, Beatrice – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2021
Background: Research evidence supports the assertion that healthy employees are happier and more productive. Employers prefer to hire healthy workers to reduce absenteeism. Rehabilitation counselors have started to explore health promotion interventions to help individuals with chronic health conditions and disability improve their physical and…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Chronic Illness, Pain, Human Body
Li, Jian; Roessler, Richard T.; Rumrill, Phillip D. Jr.; Krause, James – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2020
Background: Social and environmental participation endeavors are theorized to shape one's general satisfaction with the overall employment situation facing people with MS. Objective: Responding to a national survey of the employment concerns of Americans with multiple sclerosis (MS), this study examined the extent to which factors at the…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Employment Level, Age Differences, Educational Attainment
Yaghmaian, Rana; Iwanaga, Kanako; Grenawalt, Teresa Ann; Reling, James; Brickham, Dana; Chan, Fong – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2020
Background: Participation is one of the most important interdisciplinary outcome variables in biopsychosocial conceptions of health and disability. While the literature surrounding social and community participation in persons with disabilities indicates that participation is a highly subjective construct, there are few known psychometrically…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Questionnaires, Females, Participation
Lusk, Stephanie L.; Sanchez, Jennifer; Smarinsky, Evan; Veale, Frances – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2020
Background: Marijuana as an alternative treatment for chronic illnesses has gained popularity over the past several years, and researchers continue to report positive outcomes for a growing number of disorders. Objective: To address the increasing number of individuals with disabilities using medicinal marijuana, this study sought to ascertain how…
Descriptors: Marijuana, Medicine, Indigenous Knowledge, Chronic Illness
Koch, Lynn C.; Hill, Julie; Rumrill, Phillip D., Jr. – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2019
Background: Rehabilitation counselors can anticipate providing services to growing numbers of individuals who have disabilities that were acquired in (or exacerbated by) severe weather events. The impact of these events on individuals' psychosocial and vocational functioning is an important factor to address in holistic rehabilitation assessment…
Descriptors: Weather, Disabilities, Chronic Illness, Adventitious Impairments
Dispenza, Franco; Elston, Nikki C.; Huffstead, Mary E.; Suttles, Mackenzie G.; Golubovic, Nedeljko – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2017
Purpose: To identify meaningful educative experiences that contributed to the development of rehabilitation counselors' abilities to provide effective rehabilitation counseling services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) persons living with chronic illness/disabilities (CID). Method: This was a secondary analysis of a larger…
Descriptors: Rehabilitation Counseling, Rehabilitation Programs, Counselor Training, Homosexuality
Dispenza, Franco; Hunter, Tameeka – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2015
Purpose: Reported use of and satisfaction rates of vocational rehabilitation (VR) services among a small sample of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons living with various chronic illness and disability (CID) conditions in the United States were explored. Method: Data were pulled from a larger data set that was collected via the…
Descriptors: Vocational Rehabilitation, Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity
Muller, Veronica; Brooks, Jessica; Tu, Wei-Mo; Moser, Erin; Lo, Chu-Ling; Chan, Fong – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2015
Purpose: The main objective of this study was to determine the extent to which physical and cognitive-affective factors are associated with fibromyalgia (FM) fatigue. Method: A quantitative descriptive design using correlation techniques and multiple regression analysis. The participants consisted of 302 members of the National Fibromyalgia &…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cognitive Processes, Fatigue (Biology), Diseases
Frain, Michael P.; Bishop, Malachy; Rumrill, Phillip D., Jr.; Chan, Fong; Tansey, Timothy N.; Strauser, David; Chiu, Chung-Yi – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2015
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an unpredictable, sometimes progressive chronic illness affecting people in the prime of their working lives. This article reviews the effects of MS on employment based on the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health model. Correlations between employment and…
Descriptors: Diseases, Neurological Impairments, Chronic Illness, Accessibility (for Disabled)
Bishop, Malachy; Chan, Fong; Rumrill, Phillip D., Jr.; Frain, Michael P.; Tansey, Timothy N.; Chiu, Chung-Yi; Strauser, David; Umeasiegbu, Veronica I. – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2015
Purpose: To examine demographic, functional, and clinical multiple sclerosis (MS) variables affecting employment status in a national sample of adults with MS in the United States. Method: The sample included 4,142 working-age (20-65 years) Americans with MS (79.1% female) who participated in a national survey. The mean age of participants was…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Diseases, Chronic Illness, Neurological Impairments
Tansey, Timothy N.; Strauser, David; Frain, Michael P.; Bishop, Malachy; Chiu, Chung-Yi; Kaya, Cahit; Chan, Fong – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2015
The experience of living with multiple sclerosis (MS) can have a profound effect on employment. The impact of MS is a complex interaction of personal, medical, functional, financial, and psychosocial variables that ultimately results in up to 80% of persons with MS leaving their jobs within 10 years of their diagnosis. The aim of this study was to…
Descriptors: Diseases, Chronic Illness, Neurological Impairments, Job Applicants
Chiu, Chung-Yi; Tansey, Timothy N.; Chan, Fong; Strauser, David; Frain, Michael P.; Arora, Simran – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2015
Objectives: To examine the effect of rehabilitation technology interventions on the employment or job retention outcomes of individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS) served by the state-federal vocational rehabilitation program using a case-control study design. Participants: Data for this study were extracted from the Rehabilitation Services…
Descriptors: Diseases, Chronic Illness, Neurological Impairments, Vocational Rehabilitation
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