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=Volume 5 - 2017

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=Background: 
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has received considerable attention internationally. 

Methods: 
The Convention’s main arguments are analyzed conceptually. Implications for the develop-ment of research designs are elaborated upon.

Results:
The Convention entails both a human-rights and a sociopolitical dimension. Advancing a rela-tional notion of disability, it enters a terrain rather foreign to the medical sciences. Research designs have to be changed accordingly.

Conclusions: 
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 need to be established and evaluated, thereby systematically integrating qualitative methods.