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The relationship between residence and the pharmacological management of challenging behavior in individuals with intellectual disability
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posted on 2005-12-01, 00:00 authored by Jane McGillivrayJane McGillivray, M McCabeMany individuals with intellectual disability are administered psychotropic drugs to manage their challenging behavior. The increased relocation of individuals from institutions into community-based accommodation during the past decade provides an opportunity to examine the relationship between setting and drug administration. This study provides acomparison of drug use according to the type of residential facility of 873 individuals reported to have been administered drugs for behavioral restraint in March 2000, with 762 individuals reported in March 1993. In 2000, individuals in institutions were reported toreceive a moderately greater number of drugs concurrently than those in the community. However, there were no differences in the proportion of individuals prescribed drugs relative to the total population living in the respective settings. This is in contrast to the findings from 1993, where drug use was greater in individuals who were living in institutions. It was also more common for individuals who continued to be medicated across time to have previously lived in an institution. Although relocation into the community may be associated with improved living conditions, it is important to recognize that this change in living conditions is not necessarily associated with less use of drugs to manage behavior.
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Journal of developmental and physical disabilitiesVolume
17Issue
4Pagination
311 - 325Publisher
Springer NetherlandsLocation
Amsterdam, The NetherlandsPublisher DOI
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1056-263XeISSN
1573-3580Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2005, Springer Science+Business Media, Inc.Usage metrics
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pharmacological managementchallenging behaviourintellectual disabilitydeinstitutionalisationSocial SciencesScience & TechnologyLife Sciences & BiomedicineEducation, SpecialPsychology, DevelopmentalRehabilitationEducation & Educational ResearchPsychologychallenging behaviordeinstitutionalizationMENTAL-RETARDATIONLEARNING-DISABILITIESPSYCHOTROPIC MEDICATIONMALADAPTIVE BEHAVIORSAGGRESSIVE-BEHAVIORANTIPSYCHOTIC-DRUGSPEOPLECOMMUNITYPOPULATION
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