Psychopathology in Children with Intellectual Disability: Assessment, prevalence and predictive factors
Year: 2003
Type: dissertation
Abstract: __Abstract__ \n \nThis study’s main focus is psychopathology in children and adolescents with intellectual \ndisability (ID). The main topics addressed in this study are the assessment of psychopathology \nin children (also including adolescents) with ID, the prevalence and impact of \npsychopathology in children with ID, and associated risk factors. \nThe present study is an epidemiological study. In short, epidemiological studies are \nconcerned with the study of patterns of disease occurrence in human populations, and with the \nfactors that influence those patterns. Epidemiological research is empirical by nature, involves \nquantification of relevant factors, is probabilistic, and uses the method of comparison as a \nbasic tool (Verhulst, 1995). \nThe number of studies addressing the epidemiology of psychopathology in children with \nID is limited, though it has increased in the last decade. Few systematic studies on the \nrelationship between ID and psychopathology in children exist. Theoretical considerations \nand empirical findings suggest that children with ID are at higher risk than children without \nID for developing psychopathology. Further, several other issues hamper our understanding \nof the subject, such as the use of different definitions for both ID and psychopathology, the \nlack of standardized assessment procedures, and the use of not so representative samples. \nIn this chapter we will discuss some of the major issues in this research-field. Further, we \nwill account for the choices made in this study in an effort to provide good quality data on the \nepidemiology of psychopathology in children with ID.
Author: Mariëlle Dekker
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W788174871