Opioid antagonists. I: Pharmacology and rationale for use in treating self-injury

Singh, Yadhu N.; Ricketts, Robert W.; Ellis, Cynthia R.; Singh, N. N.

doi:10.1007/bf01046594

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“…Participants with ID were recruited from residential and day services in two Metropolitan Boroughs. They were people who: (1) had suffered some illness or injury within the last 3 years; (2) had showed behavioural signs of pain whilst they were ill; (3) had no significant visual impairments; (4) were able to point at objects; and (5) did not have a history of self-injurious behaviour (as such behaviour may be associated with abnormal responses to pain: Singh et al 1993). Informed consent was obtained from carers, and where possible, participants.…”

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The development of a self‐report measure to assess the location and intensity of pain in people with intellectual disabilities

Bromley

Emerson

Caine

1998

J intellect Disabil Res

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The performance of a target group of 20 people with intellectual disability (ID) and a comparison group of 20 people who did not have ID was investigated on a series of tasks involving the judgement of the location of pain (on a bodymap) and the intensity of pain (on an analogue colour scale) in response to a series of photographs of simulated painful experiences. The results of the study indicated that: (1) there were no differences between the target and comparison groups in judging pain location for 93% of test items; (2) the performance of the target group in judging pain location was stable over time; (3) people with ID rated the pain images as more intense than the comparison group on all the 'mild' pain stimuli and 36% of the 'severe' pain stimuli; (4) the performance of the target group in judging pain intensity was logically consistent for 65% of comparisons (clear trends towards significance being apparent for a further 10% of items); (5) the performance of the target group in judging pain intensity was stable over time; and (6) the performance of the target group was unrelated to indicators of cognitive ability.

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confidence: 99%