Developing and Validating Measures of Structural Ableism to Improve Health Outcomes for the Disability Community: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study

Rupa S Valdez   ¹ , PhD ;   Bonnielin K Swenor   ² , PhD ;   Franz Castro   ² , MD ;   Caroline Cerilli   ² , BA ;   Bailey A Middleton   ³ , BA ;   Kara S Fitzgibbon   ⁴ , PhD ;   Ashley Shew   ⁵ , PhD ;   Varshini Varadaraj   ² , MD ;   Hari Srinivasan   ⁶ , BA ;   Diana Cejas   ⁷ , MD

¹ Department of Systems and Information Engineering, Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States

² Disability Health Research Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

³ School of Nursing, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, United States

⁴ Center for Survey Research, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States

⁵ College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States

⁶ Brain Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States

⁷ Department of Neurology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States