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The Demographic and Diagnostic Profile of Women with Intellectual Disability and Mental Health Disorder in New South Wales and Patterns of Service Use: A Data Linkage Study
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Erin L. Whittle; Karen Fisher; Preeyaporn Srasuekbul; Julian Trollor – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Background: Current evidence indicates that intellectual disability and gender are both factors in differential usage of services. However, there are limited data about the demographic and service usage patterns of people with intellectual disability who use mental health services. This is particularly true in relation to women with intellectual…
Descriptors: Females, Mental Health, Clinical Diagnosis, Profiles
The Association between Access to Emergency Respite and Hospital Admission: A Longitudinal, Cohort Case Register Study
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Patil, Dipti; Hall, Abigail; Hasan, Syeda; Pye, Holly; Lonergan, Paul; Bowker, Lindsay; Bethina, Laxmiram; Morris, Rohan – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2022
Background: Reducing hospital admissions for people with a learning disability is a key objective of national guidelines. However, there are currently little available data which indicate factors which might reduce the risk of hospital admission. Using a cohort of people at risk of hospital admission, this research sought to explore the…
Descriptors: Hospitals, At Risk Persons, Clinical Diagnosis, Intervention
The Assessment of Executive Functioning in People with Intellectual Disabilities: An Exploratory Analysis
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Bevins, Shelley; Hurse, Emily – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2016
The following article details a piece of service development work undertaken as part of the Plymouth Down Syndrome Screening Programme. The work aimed to review the use of three measures assessing executive functioning skills used within the Programme as well as with people without Down syndrome. Three tasks assessing executive functioning (the…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Intellectual Disability, Down Syndrome, Task Analysis
Bespoke STOMP Training for Learning Disability Teams--Does It Work?
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Nancarrow, Thomas; Rencher, Joshua; Wilcock, Mike; Bonell, Simon; Wolke, Tony; Shankar, Rohit – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2019
Background: Intellectual disability (ID) is associated with polypharmacy particularly off-label psychotropics for "challenging behaviour." NHS England introduced the "stopping over medication of people with a learning disability (LD), autism or both" (STOMP) initiative. As ID services are a professionally diverse group, it is…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Learning Disabilities, Correlation, Drug Therapy
The Utility of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment as a Mental Capacity Assessment Tool for Patients with a Learning Disability
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Edge, Daniel; Oyefeso, Adenekan; Evans, Carys; Evans, Amber – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2016
Objective: To determine the psychometric properties of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in patients with a learning disability and examine it's utility for conducting mental capacity assessment. Method: This study was a cross-sectional, instrument validation study in an inpatient hospital setting, located in the East of England. The sample…
Descriptors: Patients, Learning Disabilities, Psychometrics, Case Studies
The Nature and Rate of Behaviour That Challenges in Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities Who Have Hearing Impairments/Deafness (A Longitudinal Prospective Cohort Survey)
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Buskermolen, Willem Meindert; Hoekman, Joop; Aldenkamp, Albert Pierre – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2017
Background: In this article, we describe our study of the prevalence of behaviour that challenges and which internal factors are related to behaviour that challenges in 21 people (fourteen are male, seven are female, varying in age from 12.4 to 42 years; mean 26.6, SD 7.27) with intellectual disabilities who have hearing impairments. Materials and…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Hearing Impairments, Deafness, Longitudinal Studies