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Aspects of the Use of Psychoactive Medication Among People with Intellectual Disabilities Who Have Been Resettled from Long‐stay Hospitals into Dispersed Housing

Aspects of the Use of Psychoactive Medication Among People with Intellectual Disabilities Who... Aspects of the use of psychoactive medication were assessed among 118 adults with intellectual disabilities who had been resettled from long‐stay hospitals into two local dispersed housing services. The resulting data indicated that (1) 69% of people were receiving psychoactive medication primarily for the control of challenging behaviour; (2) only 8% had psychiatric diagnoses; (3) polypharmacy was frequent and (4) medication was continued over long periods sometimes without review. The prescribing practices of general practitioners tended to follow those inherited from the long‐stay hospitals. The findings are compared with recent policy statements concerning the use of anti‐psychotic medication and the need for multidisciplinary medication audit, and contrasted with evidence for the greater efficacy of non‐pharmacological alternatives. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities Wiley

Aspects of the Use of Psychoactive Medication Among People with Intellectual Disabilities Who Have Been Resettled from Long‐stay Hospitals into Dispersed Housing

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
1996 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
ISSN
1360-2322
eISSN
1468-3148
DOI
10.1111/j.1468-3148.1996.tb00109.x
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Abstract

Aspects of the use of psychoactive medication were assessed among 118 adults with intellectual disabilities who had been resettled from long‐stay hospitals into two local dispersed housing services. The resulting data indicated that (1) 69% of people were receiving psychoactive medication primarily for the control of challenging behaviour; (2) only 8% had psychiatric diagnoses; (3) polypharmacy was frequent and (4) medication was continued over long periods sometimes without review. The prescribing practices of general practitioners tended to follow those inherited from the long‐stay hospitals. The findings are compared with recent policy statements concerning the use of anti‐psychotic medication and the need for multidisciplinary medication audit, and contrasted with evidence for the greater efficacy of non‐pharmacological alternatives.

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Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities – Wiley

Published: Sep 1, 1996

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