The Right to Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Found a Family for People with Intellectual Disability: A Systematic Review

Gomez, LE (通讯作者),Univ Oviedo, Dept Psychol, Oviedo 33003, Spain.
2023-1
Although sexuality, reproductive health, and starting a family are human rights that should be guaranteed for all citizens, they are still taboo issues for people with intellectual disability (ID), and even more so for women with ID. This paper systematically reviews the current qualitative and quantitative evidence on the rights of people with ID in regard to Articles 23 (right to home and family) and 25 (health, specifically sexual and reproductive health) of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). A systematic review of the current literature, following PRISMA 2020, was carried out in ERIC, PsychInfo, Scopus, PubMed, ProQuest, and Web of Science. In all, 151 articles were included for review. The studies were categorized into six themes: attitudes, intimate relationships, sexual and reproductive health, sexuality and sex education, pregnancy, and parenthood. There are still many barriers that prevent people with ID from fully exercising their right to sexuality, reproductive health, and parenthood, most notably communicative and attitudinal barriers. These findings underline the need to continue advancing the rights of people with ID, relying on Schalock and Verdurgo's eight-dimensional quality of life model as the ideal conceptual framework for translating such abstract concepts into practice and policy.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
卷号:20|期号:2
收录类别:SCIE
语种
英语
来源机构
University of Zaragoza; Universidad de Cantabria; University of Oviedo
资助信息
This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities and the Spanish State Research Agency (PID2019-105737RB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033).
被引频次(WOS)
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0
180天使用计数
0
2013以来使用计数
0
EISSN
1660-4601
出版年
2023-1
DOI
10.3390/ijerph20021587
学科领域
循证公共卫生
关键词
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) intellectual disability sexuality fertility parenthood motherhood sexual rights sexual health sex education
资助机构
Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities(Spanish Government) Spanish State Research Agency(Spanish Government)
WOS学科分类
Environmental Sciences Public, Environmental & Occupational Health