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Perspectives of People with Intellectual Disability about Their Family Networks: A Comparison Study with Key Support Worker Proxy Reports
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Tournier, Tess; Hendriks, Alexander H. C.; Jahoda, Andrew; Hastings, Richard P.; Giesbers, Sanne A. H.; Embregts, Petri J. C. M. – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2022
Background: The Family Network Method -- Intellectual Disability (FNM-ID) was used to compare perspectives of people with mild intellectual disability and their support workers on family networks of people with intellectual disability. Method: 138 participants with mild intellectual disability and support workers were interviewed, using the…
Descriptors: Mild Intellectual Disability, Networks, Attitudes, Behavior Problems
Impact of Severe Intellectual Disability on Proxy Instrumental Assessment of Quality of Life
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Bertelli, Marco O.; Bianco, Annamaria; Rossi, Andrea; Mancini, Michele; La Malfa, Giampaolo; Brown, Ivan – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2019
Background: Proxy quality of life (QoL) evaluation has been reported to be influenced by many factors. The present study was designed to investigate the impact that the presence of severe intellectual disability (ID) may have on proxy attribution of QoL in the instrumental assessment. Methods: The "other person" form (proxy…
Descriptors: Severe Intellectual Disability, Quality of Life, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making
Family Burden Related to Clinical and Functional Variables of People with Intellectual Disability with and without a Mental Disorder
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Irazabal, M.; Marsa, F.; Garcia, M.; Gutierrez-Recacha, P.; Martorell, A.; Salvador-Carulla, L.; Ochoa, S. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
Few studies have been found that to assess the factors that explain higher levels of family burden in adults with intellectual disability (ID) and intellectual disability and mental disorders (ID-MD). The aims of this study were to assess family burden in people with ID and ID-MD and to determine which sociodemographic, clinical and functional…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Mental Disorders, Adults, Caregivers
Moderators of Informant Agreement in the Assessment of Adolescent Psychopathology: Extension to a Forensic Sample
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Penney, Stephanie R.; Skilling, Tracey A. – Psychological Assessment, 2012
A well-documented finding in developmental psychopathology research is that different informants often provide discrepant ratings of a youth's internalizing and externalizing problems. The current study examines youth- and parent-based moderators (i.e., youth age, gender, and IQ; type of psychopathology; offense category; psychopathic traits;…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Adolescents, Criminals, Caregivers