Psychiatrists' knowledge, training and attitudes regarding the care of individuals with intellectual disability

Werner, Shirli; Stawski, Mike; Polakiewicz, Y.; Levav, I

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2788.2012.01604.x

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“…Preliminary evidence indeed affirms that stigmatising attitudes of mainstream health professionals can be a barrier for people with ID in the access to good quality, mainstream healthcare services (Lindsey ; Gill et al ; Krahn et al ). For example, studies describe the tendency of clinicians to overlook symptoms of mental health problems and attribute them to being part of ‘having an intellectual disability’ (diagnostic overshadowing) (Mason & Scior ; Werner et al ). Also, people with ID and their carers have reported perceived discrimination and negative comments as a significant experience in general hospitals (Gibbs et al ).…”

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Mainstream health professionals' stigmatising attitudes towards people with intellectual disabilities: a systematic review

Pelleboer-Gunnink

Oorsouw

Weeghel

et al. 2017

J intellect Disabil Res

131

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Background Equal access to mainstream healthcare services for people with intellectual disabilities (ID) still requires attention. Although recent studies suggest that health professionals hold positive attitudes towards people with ID, stigmatising attitudes may influence their efforts to serve people with ID in community healthcare practice. To stimulate inclusion in mainstream healthcare services, this systematic review focussed on barriers in attitudes of mainstream health professionals towards people with ID. Method Five electronic databases were systematically searched and references in full text articles were checked for studies published in the English language between January 1994 and January 2016. A social-psychological triad of cognitive, affective and behavioural dimensions of stigmatising attitudes is used to structure and discuss the results. Results The literature search generated 2190 records with 30 studies that passed our exclusion

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Mainstream health professionals' stigmatising attitudes towards people with intellectual disabilities: a systematic review

Pelleboer-Gunnink

Oorsouw

Weeghel

et al. 2017

J intellect Disabil Res

131

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“…By contrast, negative attitudes can lead to decisions such as rejection (Daruwalla & Darcy, 2005;Boer & Munde, 2014;Hassanein, 2015), segregation (Keller & Siegrist, 2010;Keith et al, 2015), and degradation (Panek & Jungers, 2008). The importance of knowing the attitudes of individuals towards people who have a disability can be summarized as: contributing to making programs for individuals with disabilities more successful; attempting to make the attitudes of the individuals towards disability more positive; and the education and enlightenment of the public to adjust any incorrect concepts and to try to make the attitudes more positive (Eberhardt & Mayberry, 1995;Golding & Rose, 2014;Werner, Stawski, Polakiewicz, & Levav, 2012). Raven & Rubin (1983) have pointed out that attitudes are not inherited but acquired and learned, with the individual acquiring them from the prevailing societal culture through socialisation.…”

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Attitudes towards people with intellectual disability in the UK and Libya: A cross-cultural comparison

Benomir

Nicolson

Beail

2016

Research in Developmental Disabilities

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Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) eprints@whiterose.ac.uk https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ Reuse Unless indicated otherwise, fulltext items are protected by copyright with all rights reserved. The copyright exception in section 29 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 allows the making of a single copy solely for the purpose of non-commercial research or private study within the limits of fair dealing. The publisher or other rights-holder may allow further reproduction and re-use of this version -refer to the White Rose Research Online record for this item. Where records identify the publisher as the copyright holder, users can verify any specific terms of use on the publisher's website. TakedownIf you consider content in White Rose Research Online to be in breach of UK law, please notify us by emailing eprints@whiterose.ac.uk including the URL of the record and the reason for the withdrawal request. ATTITUDES TOWARDS PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY Attitudes towards People with Intellectual Disability in the UK What this paper adds:This is the first study:to assess quantitatively attitudes to people with ID in Libya; ATTITUDES TOWARDS PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY(ii) to assess the attitudes of two sectors -staff working with people with ID, and University students;(iii) to compare attitudes to people with ID in Libya and in the UK, and the study therefore extends the considerable corpus previously established using the CLAS-MR.(iv) The paper provides baseline information that allows future researchers who collect data on attitudes to people with ID to evaluate the changes occurring as a consequence of interventions or events.

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“…This is in some way consistent with the findings of Haskell [36] who reported that social work students have an average selfperceived KD. Inadequate self-perceived knowledge about intellectual disability was, however, found among psychiatrist by Werner et al [37]. The various disciplines explored in this study have disability related courses offered in their curricula, it is therefore not strange that such courses would have informed the good knowledge they demonstrated.…”

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Attitude towards, contact with people with disabilities and knowledge of disability among health science undergraduates in a Nigerian university

Olaoye¹,

Oduola²,

Alonge³

et al. 2017

J Behav Health

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Background: This study assessed health sciences undergraduates attitude toward and contact with people with disability (PWD), knowledge of disability (KD) as well as their association with each of gender, ethnicity, level and program of study. Methods: Using a stratified random sampling technique, 267 undergraduates of the College of Health Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, responded to this cross-sectional survey yielding a response rate of 89%. A structured self-administered questionnaire on attitude toward contact with PWDs and KD was used to assess attitude, contact, and knowledge of the respondents. Procedure was explained to respondents who consented for this study and data were subsequently obtained. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics at P < 0.05. Results: About 62.9% of the respondents had positive attitude toward PWDs with the majority being females (68.9%), students of Igbo ethnicity (89.7%), 4 th year students (86.1%) and nursing students (70.5%). Over 70% had good KD, however, the majority (91.4%) had little or no contact with PWDs. KD was significantly associated with respondents ethnicity (χ 2 = 8.57; P < 0.05) and year of study (χ 2 = 38.34; P < 0.05). Furthermore, there was a relationship between the attitude toward PWDs and KD of respondents (r = 0.24; P < 0.001). Conclusion: The authors, therefore, concluded that Nigerian health sciences undergraduates have positive attitude toward PWDs, good KD but low contact with PWDs.

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Psychiatrists' knowledge, training and attitudes regarding the care of individuals with intellectual disability

Cited by 27 publications

References 26 publications

Mainstream health professionals' stigmatising attitudes towards people with intellectual disabilities: a systematic review

Mainstream health professionals' stigmatising attitudes towards people with intellectual disabilities: a systematic review

Attitudes towards people with intellectual disability in the UK and Libya: A cross-cultural comparison

Attitude towards, contact with people with disabilities and knowledge of disability among health science undergraduates in a Nigerian university

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