The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with learning disabilities and factors associated with better outcomes

全英国大约有150万人有学习障碍。即使在2019冠状病毒病大流行之前，有学习障碍的人也更有可能经历较差的健康和福祉，受到限制的社交生活，孤独和贫困。COVID-19大流行期间的社会限制和支持变化可能使情况变得更糟。在这个项目中，我们将询问1000名轻度/中度学习障碍患者以及500名重度/深度学习障碍患者的护理人员，了解他们的福祉、健康状况、生活环境、获得的支持以及COVID-19对他们生活的影响。在这个为期12个月的项目中，我们将对人们进行三次调查，这样我们就能看到随着时间的推移，是否有什么变化，以及什么与人们的更好体验有关。我们也会就项目过程中出现的紧急问题提出额外的问题。这些将通过与英国各地有学习障碍的人、家庭照顾者、政策制定者和其他组织的合作来决定。每次进行调查时，我们都会对信息进行分析，这样我们就可以与合作组织一起，将信息快速地传递给可以使用这些信息的广大人员和组织。

There are about 1.5 million people with learning disabilities across the UK. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, people with learning disabilities were more likely to experience poorer health and wellbeing, restricted social lives and loneliness and poverty. The social retsrictions and changes in support during the COVID-19 pandemic may have made this worse. In this project we will ask 1,000 people with mild/moderate learning disabilities, and the carers of 500 people with severe/profound learning disabilities, about their wellbeing, health, living circumstances, the support they are getting, and the impact of COVID-19 on their lives. We will go back to people three times over the 12-month project so we can see if anything is changing over time and what is linked to better experiences for people. We will also ask extra questions about urgent issues that come up during the course of the project. These will be decided by working with collaborating organisations of people with learning disabilities and family carers, policy-makers and other organisations across the UK. We will analyse the information each time we run the survey so we, with collaborating organisations, can get information quickly to the wide range of people and organisations who can use it.