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

英国约有150万人有学习障碍。即使在2019冠状病毒病大流行之前，有学习障碍的人更有可能经历更差的健康和福祉、受限的社交生活以及孤独和贫困。COVID-19疫情期间的社会紧缩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1，000名轻度/中度学习障碍者，以及500名重度/深度学习障碍者的照顾者，关于他们的幸福感，健康，生活环境，他们得到的支持，以及COVID-19对他们生活的影响。在这个为期12个月的项目中，我们将三次回到人们身上，这样我们就可以看到随着时间的推移是否有什么变化，以及什么与人们更好的体验有关。我们还将询问有关项目过程中出现的紧急问题的额外问题。这些将通过与学习障碍者和家庭照顾者，政策制定者和联合王国其他组织的合作组织合作来决定。我们将在每次进行调查时分析信息，以便我们与合作组织一起，可以将信息快速提供给可以使用它的广泛人员和组织。

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.