AUTHOR=von Peter Sebastian , Bieler Patrick 

TITLE=How to Study Chronic Diseases—Implications of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for Research Designs

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Public Health

VOLUME=5

YEAR=2017

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2017.00088

DOI=10.3389/fpubh.2017.00088

ISSN=2296-2565

ABSTRACT=<sec id="ST1"><title>Background</title><p>The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has been received considerable attention internationally.</p></sec><sec id="ST2"><title>Methods</title><p>The Convention’s main arguments are conceptually analyzed. Implications for the development of research designs are elaborated upon.</p></sec><sec id="ST3"><title>Results</title><p>The Convention entails both a human rights and a sociopolitical dimension. Advancing a relational notion of disability, it enters a rather foreign terrain to medical sciences. Research designs have to be changed accordingly.</p></sec><sec id="ST4"><title>Conclusion</title><p>Research designs in accordance with the CRPD should employ and further develop context-sensitive research strategies and interdisciplinary collaboration. Complex designs that allow for a relational analysis of personalized effects have to be established and evaluated, thereby systematically integrating qualitative methods.</p></sec>