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Jackson, Katie E.; Krishnaswami, Shanthi; McPheeters, Melissa – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
Children with potentially severe health conditions such as cerebral palsy (CP) are at risk for unmet health care needs. We sought to determine whether children with CP had significantly greater unmet health care needs than children with other special health care needs (SHCN), and whether conditions associated with CP increased the odds of unmet…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Emotional Problems, Surveys, Child Health
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Zaal, Rianne J.; van der Kaaij, Annemieke D. M.; Evenhuis, Heleen M.; van den Bemt, Patricia M. L. A. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
Prescribing pharmacotherapy for older individuals with an intellectual disability (ID) is a complex process, possibly leading to an increased risk of prescription errors. The objectives of this study were (1) to determine the prevalence of older individuals with an intellectual disability with at least one prescription error and (2) to identify…
Descriptors: Living Standards, Body Composition, Incidence, Predictor Variables
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van de Wouw, E.; Evenhuis, H. M.; Echteld, M. A. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
In people with intellectual disability (ID), impaired sleep is common. Life expectancy has increased in this group, and it is known that in general population sleep deteriorates with aging. Therefore the aims of this systematic review were to examine how sleep problems are defined in research among adults and older people with ID, and to collect…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Mental Retardation, Sleep, Multivariate Analysis