ERIC Number: EJ1475172
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-May
Pages: 26
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ISSN: ISSN-1360-2322
EISSN: EISSN-1468-3148
Available Date: 2025-04-30
A Scoping Review of Health-Related Self-Management Approaches for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, v38 n3 e70057 2025
Background: The global rise in chronic health conditions highlights the importance of self-management in empowering people to actively participate in their healthcare. People with intellectual disabilities are disproportionately affected by these conditions and face barriers in accessing self-management interventions. Method: This scoping review mapped literature on self-management approaches for adults with intellectual disabilities. A three-step search strategy was employed, involving electronic databases, reference lists, and advocacy organisation websites. Data on study design, intervention characteristics and outcomes were synthesised. Results: The review included 38 articles from 34 studies, focusing on adults with intellectual disabilities. Studies with varied designs and interventions reported successful engagement and positive health outcomes when self-management interventions were adapted for adults with intellectual disabilities and featured caregiver support. Main Conclusions: Adapted self-management interventions are feasible and yield positive outcomes for adults with intellectual disabilities. Future research should focus on long-term outcomes, client--caregiver models and co-design methodology.
Descriptors: Self Management, Health Behavior, Intellectual Disability, Barriers, Intervention, Foreign Countries, Training, Program Effectiveness
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom; United States; Netherlands; New Zealand; Australia; Canada; Germany; Ireland
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Author Affiliations: 1Three Rivers Department of Rural Health, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia; 2School of Rural Medicine, Charles Sturt University, Orange, Australia