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The characteristics of users of an online screening tool for children and adolescents with intellectual disability and of those being screened

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Screening tools can help with the identification of intellectual disability, but little is known about who uses them. This study analysed anonymous information from 2691 users of an evidence-based, online, intellectual disability screening questionnaire for children and adolescents (CAIDS-Q) to explore the characteristics of the users and of those being screened. The users were split almost equally between parents/family members (48.6%) and professionals (49.9%), with the majority (63.8%) of the latter group being health staff. Significant differences in the characteristics of the children being screened were found, according to whether the user was a parent/family member or a professional, with the overall pattern suggesting that professionals screened children with greater complexity of needs, but about whom less was known. The screened children had a range of areas of difficulties that are common to those with intellectual disability. Implications for practice are discussed.

Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities

DOI: 10.1177/17446295241272698

Authors: Karen McKenzie, Kara R. Murray, Judith Thompson, Karen Horridge, Kirsty Greenwell, Aja L. Murray

Institutions: Northumbria University, NHS Lothian, University of Sunderland, University of Edinburgh

Language: English

Topic: Down syndrome and intellectual disability research

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,450