Correlates of direct care staffs’ attitudes towards aggression of persons with intellectual disabilities

Abstract

Further research is necessary in order to understand how team processes affect the attitude towards aggression of direct care staff. Further it is recommended to provide direct care staff with knowledge about mental disorders in clients with ID.

Training direct care staff working with persons with intellectual disabilities and challenging behaviour: A meta-analytic review study

“…Another explanation may be that male and female staff display different behavioural tendencies in contact with their clients with ID. For instance, studies by Knotter, Wissink, Moonen, Stams, and Jansen (2013) and Knotter, Stams, Moonen, and Wissink (2016) showed that teams with a higher proportion of male staff showed more negative attitudes towards aggression and used more intrusive and coercive interventions than teams with a lower proportion of male staff (or female only teams) when confronted with aggressive behaviour of their clients with ID. In particular team dynamics might account for this finding.…”

“…It was remarkable that none of the training programs included in our meta-analysis focused on training team beliefs and team interaction of direct care staff (Knotter et al, 2013). Besides a functional analysis of the clients' behaviour which "challenges" the relation with an individual direct care worker in the environment in which the behaviour occurs, it is recommended to investigate the interactions in the team (attitude and team climate) and organization characteristics (support, culture, beliefs) on staff-client interactions (Knotter et al, 2016).…”

Stakeholders’ perspectives on how to improve the support for persons with an intellectual disability and challenging behaviors: a concept mapping study

“…Interventions may also focus on the environment of the person with an ID. For example on the skills of direct support workers in trying to reduce, manage, or cope with the challenging behaviors (Cox et al 2015, van Oorsouw et al 2013, Stoesz et al 2016, Zijlmans et al 2015 or focus on the team climate (Knotter et al 2016, Willems et al 2016.…”

Modelling correlated data: Multilevel models and generalized estimating equations and their use with data from research in developmental disabilities

“…MLMs and GEEs have both been used to account for clustering caused by a hyper-ordinate structure. For example, MLMs have been used to analyse data clustered because of nesting of parents in couples (Garcia-Lopez et al, 2016;Hartley & Schultz, 2015;Jones et al, 2014;Langley et al, 2017;Pottie et al, 2009), families in households (Pottie et al, 2009), individuals with ID in community homes (Qian et al, 2015), support staff in organizations (Knotter et al, 2016). GEEs have been used to account for clustering caused by carers nesting within households (Totsika et al, 2017), multiple births nesting within women (Brown et al, 2016), or twins nesting within families (Cheng et al, 2015).…”