Table 7 People with disabilities perceptions of attitudes during Ebola
A few, or many, cases of Ebola (n=560) | No Ebola cases (n=1343) | Don’t know whether there were any Ebola cases (n=107) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Disabled household n (%) | Non-disabled household n (%) | Total n (%) | Disabled household n (%) (reference group) | Non-disabled household n (%) | Total n (%) | Disabled household n (%) | Non-disabled household n (%) | Total n (%) | |
[For disabled people only] During the Ebola outbreak, did people change how they acted towards you? | |||||||||
Yes | 76 (84%)** | 108 (62%) | 5 (56%) | ||||||
No | 10 (11%) | 65 (37%) | 2 (22%) | ||||||
[For disabled people only] - How did the way they act change? | |||||||||
I was not allowed to return home | 13 (17%)* | 2 (2%) | 0 (0%) | ||||||
I was isolated in the community | 24 (32%) | 51 (47%) | 1 (20%) | ||||||
I was treated as an outsider | 15 (20%)* | 11 (10%) | 4 (80%) | ||||||
I was rejected and shunned by others or treated as inferior | 8 (11%) | 17 (16%) | 0 (0%) | ||||||
I was not treated fairly | 12 (16%) | 18 (17%) | 0 (0%) | ||||||