Individuals with intellectual disabilities who live with family and experience psychiatric crisis: Who uses the emergency department and who stays home?

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dc.contributor.authorWeiss, Jonathan
dc.contributor.authorSlusarczyk, Maggie
dc.contributor.authorLunsky, Yona
dc.date.accessioned2012-08-08T18:27:33Z
dc.date.available2012-08-08T18:27:33Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.descriptionDOI 10.1080/19315864.2011.599013en_US
dc.description.abstractMany individuals with intellectual disabilities who live with their families experience mental health problems and ensuing psychiatric emergencies. During periods of crisis, families may require additional services, including going to the emergency department (ED). The goal of this study was to elucidate demographic, clinical, and crisis features associated with ED use in 192 individuals who lived with family and experienced a psychiatric crisis. The presence of psychiatric symptoms, a mild (vs. moderate/severe) level of intellectual disability; a history of behaviour problems, psychiatric hospitalization and ED use; and a recent history of negative life events were related to ED use. Learning about the factors that distinguish groups is needed to make sure we develop proactive community-based resources for such people to prevent visits to the ED from occurring when possible.en_US
dc.identifier.citationWeiss, J. A., Slusarczyk, M., & Lunsky, Y. (2011). Individuals with intellectual disabilities who live with family and experience psychiatric crisis: Who uses the emergency department and who stays home? Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 4, 158-171.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/17636
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.rightsThis is an electronic version of an article published in [Weiss, J., Slusarczyk, M., & Lunsky, Y. (2011). Individuals with intellectual disabilities who live with family and experience psychiatric crisis: Who uses the emergency department and who stays home? Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 4, 158-171.]. Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/ openurl?genre=article&issn=1931-5872&volume=4&issue=3&spage=158en_US
dc.rights.articlehttp://www.tandfonline.com/ openurl?genre=article&issn=1931-5872&volume=4&issue=3&spage=158
dc.subjectFamilyen_US
dc.subjectPsychiatric Crisisen_US
dc.subjectMental Health Problemen_US
dc.subjectEmergency Departmenten_US
dc.subjectIntellectual Disabilityen_US
dc.titleIndividuals with intellectual disabilities who live with family and experience psychiatric crisis: Who uses the emergency department and who stays home?
dc.typeArticleen_US

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