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Feasibility, Reliability and Validity of the Dutch Translation of the Anxiety, Depression and Mood Scale in Older Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
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Hermans, Heidi; Jelluma, Naftha; van der Pas, Femke H.; Evenhuis, Heleen M. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
Background: The informant-based Anxiety, Depression And Mood Scale was translated into Dutch and its feasibility, reliability and validity in older adults (aged greater than or equal to 50 years) with intellectual disabilities (ID) was studied. Method: Test-retest (n = 93) and interrater reliability (n = 83), and convergent (n = 202 and n = 787),…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Interrater Reliability, Measures (Individuals), Depression (Psychology)
Health Status and ADL Functioning of Older Persons with Intellectual Disability: Community Residence versus Residential Care Centers
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Lifshitz, Hefziba; Merrick, Joav; Morad, Mohammed – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
The objective of the study was to study differences in aging phenomena among adults with intellectual disability (ID), who live in community residence versus their peers in residential care centers and to determine the contribution of health status, age, gender, etiology and level of ID to the decline in ADL function with age. Our study was based…
Descriptors: Residential Care, Mental Retardation, Caregivers, Down Syndrome