A new £1m project to improve the care of people with learning disabilities is being led by v-connect, a video communication service.
The project, BOLD-TC (Better Outcomes for People with Learning Disabilities – Transforming Care), will collaborate with care providers and their clients to explore how multi-way video calling, remote video and other services through mobile devices, together with remote monitoring of vital signs can help people with learning disabilities remain in their community, increasing their independence and improving their health and wellbeing.
A new report from PSSRU suggests that adapted parenting programmes for people with learning disabilities might be a cost-effective way of providing support for this group. The authors – Annette Bauer (Research Fellow) and Gemma Williams (Research Officer) – discuss their findings.
Substance use disorders (SUD) are associated with several neurobiological disruptions, including biases in attention and approach/avoidance behaviour. The aims of this study were to compare the strength of cognitive biases between light and problematic drinkers, to explore the role of IQ on the cognitive biases and to study the psychometric qualities of the measures. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library - www.sssft.nhs.uk/library
Evaluative conditioning is a form of affective learning in which initially neutral stimuli acquire an affective value through association with negative or positive stimuli. Recent research shows an important role for cognitive resources in this type of learning. This form of affective learning has rarely been studied in intellectual disability (ID). Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library - www.sssft.nhs.uk/library
Training support staff in dealing with challenging behaviour in clients with intellectual disabilities (ID) is needed. The goal of this study is to determine which elements need to be incorporated in a training on staff interactions with these clients, building upon a framework and an interpersonal model. As in functional analysis, this study tests the influence of client interpersonal behaviour, three types of staff reactions to challenging behaviour, two types of staff psychological resources and staff team climate on four styles of staff interpersonal behaviour. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library - www.sssft.nhs.uk/library
The aim of this study was to describe the nutrition, food choice, physical activity and weight status in a group of adults with intellectual disability (ID) in Victoria, Australia. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library - www.sssft.nhs.uk/library
Network Training is a way that helps people to understand behaviour like hurting people or breaking things, called ‘challenging behaviour’.
Network Training is where lots of people meet up to think about the person showing challenging behaviour.
We did Network Training to help understand the behaviours of a boy who has a learning disability. His support workers, teachers and doctors came to think about what was making him show challenging behaviours.
The people who came to the training thought that it was useful. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library - www.sssft.nhs.uk/library
This study looks at the experience of women with learning disabilities who go for breast screening (X-ray of the breast)
Women with learning disabilities reported that there were many things that encouraged and discouraged them from going for breast screening.
Carers were very important in supporting women with learning disabilities through breast screening. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library - www.sssft.nhs.uk/library
Commentary on:
Pruijssers A, van Meijel B, Maaskant M, et al. The role of nurses/social workers in using a multidimensional guideline for diagnosis of anxiety and challenging behaviour in people with intellectual disabilities. J Clin Nurs 2015;24:1955–65.
Implications for practice and research
With training and support, nurses/social workers can make an important contribution to the diagnosis of anxiety and challenging behaviour in people with intellectual disabilities.
More research is needed to understand the input of nurses/social workers in multidimensional diagnostics in terms of potential impacts on diagnostic process and quality of care. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens
The Improving Health and Lives (IHaL) team are preparing their next 'reasonable adjustments' report and the focus is constipation. The Confidential Inquiry into Premature Deaths of People with Learning Disabilities found that constipation was the most common treatable condition among people with learning disabilities, affecting 37% of this population. Moreover, the recent Serious Case Reviews published by Suffolk Safeguarding Adults Board highlight the potential seriousness of chronic constipation.
We are pleased to announce that the Public Health England, People with a Learning Disability conference will take place on Tuesday 15th March 2016 at the Kia Oval, London. The conference will launch the first round of a new set of national and local information about the health and care of people with learning disabilities.
The study included more than 5,000 mothers, around 1,500 of which had received some form of infertility treatment, and assessed their child’s development at three years of age.
They looked at whether there was a different effect, depending on whether it was a single or twin birth, and the type of infertility treatment given – either assisted reproductive techniques such as IVF, infertility drugs or artificial insemination.
Overall, there was no convincing evidence that infertility treatment had any effect on a child’s development.
Learning Disabilities Elf Blog post. Research demonstrates that carers of people with intellectual disabilities may have poorer health and wellbeing than the general population
Learning Disabilities Elf Blog post. In their recent paper, Kant and colleagues have focused on expanding the evidence base for efficacy of using functional analysis (FA) with children who have FXS and severely challenging behaviour.
Learning Disabilities Elf Blog post. Diabetes is an increasingly common health condition and individuals with a learning disability are believed to make up a significant number of those adults with diabetes in the UK (Morin, 2012).
Learning Disabilities Elf ld Blog post. The confidential inquiry into premature deaths of people with learning disabilities (CIPOLD) found a greater proportion of people with learning disabilities died as a result of epilepsy than in the general population and that in some cases NICE guidelines relating to the management of epilepsy were not adhered to. These findings highlight the importance of service responses to people with learning disabilities and epilepsy.
People with learning disabilities in Shropshire, and Telford and Wrekin, are being encouraged to get their flu vaccination if they’ve been contacted by their GP.
It is estimated there are 1.2 million people in England that have a learning disability, many of whom also have long term conditions such as respiratory problems. This makes them at risk of complications should they contract flu.
The MoCA-LD has the potential to be a useful tool for mental capacity assessment in patients with a learning disability. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library - www.sssft.nhs.uk/library