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Manifestations of depression in people with intellectual disability

Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 1997
AbstractThe symptoms of 36 people with varying degrees of intellectual disability (ID) who had had an ICD‐I0 depressive syndrome in the preceding year were compared with 46 non‐depressed people with comparable degrees of ID. Throughout the spectrum of ID, symptoms of depressed affect and sleep disturbance were significantly different between the groups.
G M, Marston, D W, Perry, A, Roy
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Detecting pain in people with an intellectual disability

Accident and Emergency Nursing, 2004
The assessment of pain in a person with an intellectual disability (ID) is often a difficult undertaking complicated by idiosyncratic reactions or vague descriptions. The person with an ID may also be unable to verbally communicate their discomfort. For the carer who knows the individual with an ID, knowing how they respond to painful stimuli assists ...
Foley, David C., McCutcheon, Helen
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People with epilepsy and intellectual disability

Acta Neurologica Belgica
The prevalence of epilepsy is high in people with intellectual disability (ID) and increases with growing severity of the ID. People with epilepsy and ID are not only at risk of different types of seizure-related complications (such as injuries and sudden unexpected death) but also of different types of physical impairments and of psychiatric ...
C P J A, Monté, J B A M, Arends, R H C, Lazeron, I Y, Tan, P A J M, Boon   +4 more
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Outcomes Important to People With Intellectual Disabilities

Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 2008
Abstract  An emphasis on the outcomes of health and social care services has become increasingly apparent within public policy in the United Kingdom. Alongside this, working in partnership has been a key theme, despite a relatively underdeveloped evidence base.
Miller, Emma, Cooper, Sally Ann, Cook, Ailsa, Petch, Alison   +3 more
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Poverty and people with intellectual disabilities

Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 2007
AbstractEpidemiological studies have consistently reported a significant association between poverty and the prevalence of intellectual disabilities. The available evidence suggests that this association reflects two distinct processes. First, poverty causes intellectual disabilities, an effect mediated through the association between poverty and ...
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Prevalence of people with intellectual disability in the Netherlands

Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2007
AbstractBackground  Since the 1990s, people with intellectual disability (ID) in the Netherlands have been moving from institutions to supported accommodation in the community. The Government is in need of recent data on the numbers of these people, to ensure adequate care provision and funding. This paper reports on the prevalence of people with ID in
M, Wullink, H M J, van Schrojenstein Lantman-de Valk, G J, Dinant, J F M, Metsemakers   +3 more
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Cardiac diseases in people with intellectual disability

Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2006
AbstractBackground In people with ID there is more morbidity than in the general population, including cardiac diseases. Dutch figures on this subject are scarce.Methods Descriptive study of the prevalence of cardiac diseases in 436 residential clients in Echt, the Netherlands, and comparisons between men and women, age groups, and level and aetiology ...
M, van den Akker, M A, Maaskant, R J M, van der Meijden   +2 more
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Psychotic symptoms in people with intellectual disability

BMJ, 2018
I commend Sami and colleagues for the topic and scope of their article on psychotic symptoms in non-specialist settings, which is well suited to a broad audience.1 Compressing such a large amount of information into a concise Practice Pointer inevitably results in omissions, and, in this case, the opportunity was missed to inform non-specialist readers
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Neglect of people with intellectual disabilities

Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2006
Evidence from numerous studies strongly suggests that many people with intellectual disabilities have greater health needs and also have restricted access to health care compared to the general population. Given this evidence and that this has existed for some time, when does failure to act on this knowledge constitute a form of abuse?
Robert, Jenkins, Rachel, Davies
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Communicative empowerment of people with intellectual disability

Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2012
Personal narratives are conditional for victims of sexual abuse to overcome their trauma. Counsellors can help victims with intellectual disability to take an active position in conversations about sexuality and to co-construct a personal narrative.Using discourse and conversational analysis, we studied 4 conversations between a counsellor and a woman ...
Carolus, van Nijnatten, Marianne, Heestermans   +1 more
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