| Autor: |
Pouls, K., Cuypers, M., Mastebroek, M., Koks-Leensen, M., Wieland, J., Leusink, G. L., Assendelft, P. |
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| Zdroj: |
European Journal of Public Health; 2021 Supplement, Vol. 31, piii315-iii315, 1/3p |
| Abstrakt: |
People with mild ID suffer more mental health disorders (MHD) than people without ID. Practitioners working in mental health services (MHS) indicate limited knowledge and experience to provide the care needed. Besides diagnosing MHD, identification of the ID itself is a challenge and not all people with a ID are recorded in the MHS as such. These factors contribute to insufficient care and can result in chronic, more difficult to treat MHD. For this study, all adult users of Dutch MHS between 2015 and 2017 were enrolled in MHS databases of Statistics Netherlands. Presence of mild ID was established by linking MHS data with social services and chronic care databases. Characteristics of new cases of MHC were analyzed and compared between patients with and without mild ID. Linking databases identified 11,374 MHC patients with mild ID, and 525,162 patients without ID. A substantial proportion of patients with mild ID did not have this characteristic noted in their MHS records (60.6%). Preliminary results showed people with mild ID were younger, were more often man, had different diagnostic profiles, required more crisis interventions, and more psychiatric hospital admissions compared to people without ID. In addition, people with a mild ID and no ID record in MHS received less treatment compared to both people with mild ID and a ID record, and people with no ID. According to these findings, the prevalence of MHD and provided care between people with and without a mild ID, in MHS deviated. The Mild ID is potentially under recognized among MHS patients. The findings are a first step towards improving mental healthcare for patients with ID. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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