In this study - in particular the initial survey portion- being a person with mental disability was defined as someone who has received mental health care and/or a mental health diagnosis. Participants did not have to identify as disabled to participate in the survey and participants were informed that they could otherwise identify with terms like mental-health services consumer, a psychiatric survivor, a person with mental illness, a psychocrip, or as someone with their particular diagnosis. 

Person with Mental Disability

Price notes that troubles arose when there were differences in how participants self identified and the range of possible terms Price used, or when a participant's definition of a term was different than Price's definition.

Price highlights three areas where issues popped up which led to challenges in conducting interdependent accessible research:
1. Language
2. Access
3. Representation

Examples of Challenges in Interdependent Accessible Research Practices

Price, M. (2024). Crip Spacetime. Duke University Press.

Crip Spacetime

Language and Interdependent Accessible Research Practices

Price notes that in the design of the survey, in particular survey questions and phrasing of questions, that there was an awareness that there were two different audiences with different needs that Price and other researchers needed to keep in mind - both the disabled individuals taking the survey and making sure they could express their thoughts and identity in a way that was authentic to them, and making sure the survey was designed in a way that it could produce meaningful results for an academic audience, including an academic audience that might not have field familiarity with Critical Disability Studies.

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