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Direct linkJenaro, C.; Vega, V.; Flores, N.; Cruz, M. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2013
Background: Concepts such as support, quality of life and quality of services are customary in services for people with intellectual disabilities. The identification of the different ways of conceiving, prioritising and implementing these concepts by service providers can help to drive changes to achieve better personal outcomes for this…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Focus Groups, Mental Retardation, Delivery Systems
Gerber, F.; Bessero, S.; Robbiani, B.; Courvoisier, D. S.; Baud, M. A.; Traore, M.-C.; Blanco, P.; Giroud, M.; Carminati, G. Galli – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2011
Background: Owing to methodological issues, little research has been conducted to examine quality of life (QoL) as a treatment outcome in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and intellectual disabilities (ID). This study was conducted to combine QoL measures and objective observations of challenging behaviours (CB) in order to evaluate changes over…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Autism, Quality of Life, Rating Scales
Garcia-Villamisar, D. A.; Dattilo, J. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2010
Background: Even though there is research demonstrating a positive relationship between leisure participation and the two constructs of quality of life and stress reduction, current conceptualisation of leisure as a contributor to quality of life is limited. In addition, in spite of improvements in accurate diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder…
Descriptors: Autism, Quality of Life, Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction
Robertson, J.; Emerson, E.; Hatton, C.; Elliott, J.; McIntosh, B.; Swift, P.; Krinjen-Kemp, E.; Towers, C.; Romeo, R.; Knapp, M.; Sanderson, H.; Routledge, M.; Oakes, P.; Joyce, T. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2007
Background: Recent research in the USA and UK indicates that person-centred planning (PCP) can lead to improvements in lifestyle-related outcomes for people with intellectual disabilities (ID). It is clear, however, that the introduction of PCP does not have an equal impact for all participants. The aim of the present paper was to identify factors…
Descriptors: Research, Foreign Countries, Quality of Life, Cognitive Development
Martin, G.; Costello, H.; Leese, M.; Slade, M.; Bouras, N.; Higgins, S.; Holt, G. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2005
Assertive community treatment (ACT) has been applied to a number of disorders in the adult population, such as schizophrenia, with some degree of success; its use in the treatment of people with intellectual disability (ID) and mental illness has received little attention. Despite the high costs of ID in health and social care, there has been very…
Descriptors: Schizophrenia, Quality of Life, Mental Disorders, Mental Retardation
Schippers, A. P. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2005
Background: Actual practice in the Netherlands has shown the need of an instrument to evaluate the quality of support plans. This article describes the development of an instrument for such evaluation. Method: The concept of quality of life (QOL) domains were used to develop an instrument to evaluate the quality of support plans within a QOL…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quality of Life, Mental Retardation, Evaluation Methods
