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Behaviour problems and adults with Down syndrome: childhood risk factors
- Author:
- McCARTHY J.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 52(10), October 2008, pp.877-882.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Studies of people with intellectual disability suggest that several individual characteristics and environmental factors are associated with behaviour disorder. To date there are few studies looking at risk factors within specific syndromes and the relationship between early risk markers and later behaviour disorder. The key aim of the study was to determine if childhood risk factors were predictors of severe behaviour disorder in young adults with Down syndrome. A longitudinal cohort study of 50 people with Down syndrome in the UK was assessed with the same behavioural measure used in both childhood and adult life. The early risk factors which were assessed included childhood functioning, childhood psychopathology and early family environment as determined by measures of parental mental health, quality of parental marriage and social background. Childhood psychopathology and functioning were associated with severe behaviour disorder in adult life whereas childhood family environment was not. Children with Down syndrome at risk for severe behaviour disorder in adult life may be identified in childhood and appropriate interventions offered to reduce their risk.
Case report: challenging behaviour in a young adult with Down's Syndrome and autism
- Authors:
- PRASHER V.P., CLARKE D.J.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 24(4), 1996, pp.167-169.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
An association between Down's Syndrome and autism is reviewed. A case of severe challenging behaviour in a young adult with Down's Syndrome and childhood autism is reported. Areas of further research including prevalence studies, psychopathology and investigation for underlying genetic aetiological factors are discussed.
Behaviour phenotype for Down's Syndrome
- Authors:
- COLLACOTT Richard A., et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 172, January 1998, pp.85-89.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
For more than a century, the idea of particular personality/behavioural characteristics being associated with people with Down's Syndrome has been explored, but with inconclusive results. In this research the Disability Assessment Schedule was used to ascertain the behavioural profiles of adults with Down's Syndrome and adults with learning disabilities of other aetiologies. Results found that despite and equal age and developmental quotient, the Down's Syndrome group were less likely to demonstrate maladaptive behaviours. This study confirms there to be a behaviour phenotype among adults with Down's Syndrome. The reasons for this require further research.
A factor analysis of sleep problems and their psychological associations in children with Down's Syndrome
- Author:
- STORES Rebecca
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 11(4), 1998, pp.345-354.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reports on a study which aimed to identify statistically derived sleep disturbance factors in children with Down's syndrome and to explore the possibility that these factors have different psychological associations when compared to each other. Principal components analysis was performed on the. Three significant sleep disturbance factors were obtained. Children showing any one of these types of sleep problems had significantly higher daytime behaviour problem and maternal stress scores than children showing none. Children disturbances through the night had higher daytime behaviour score than all the other groups on virtually all the daytime scales. The findings of the study are discussed along with further research possibilities.
Longitudinal course of behavioural and emotional problems of young persons with Prader-Willi, Fragile X, Williams and Down syndromes
- Authors:
- EINFELD Stewart, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 24(4), December 1999, pp.349-354.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The authors present a comparison of levels of emotional and behavioural disturbance in children and adolescents with four genetically determined causes of intellectual disability (ID) and a control group epidemiologically derived young people with ID as a consequences of a range of known and unknown causes. The behavioural and emotional disturbances were reassessed 4 years later providing one of the few follow-up studies of these genetic disorders. The study shows that genetic cause of ID has a strong influence on the severity of behaviour problems.
Evaluation of brief group-administered instruction for parents to prevent or minimize sleep problems in young children with Down Syndrome
- Authors:
- STORES Gregory, STORES Rebecca
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 17(1), June 2004, pp.61-70.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The study concerns the unknown value of group instruction for mothers of young children with Down syndrome (DS) in preventing or minimizing sleep problems. Children with DS were randomly allocated to an Instruction group (given basic information about children's sleep) and a Control group for later comparison including objective sleep measures (actometry). As a secondary exercise, parental reports of sleep problems and objective sleep measures were compared in children with DS and a small sample of unimpaired children (U group) of comparable age and sex distribution. Instruction (shown to have improved mothers' knowledge) was associated with improvement in behavioural sleep problem ratings at 6-month follow up with no change in sleep-related breathing problem ratings or actometry findings. Sleep-related breathing problem symptoms and actometry abnormalities were significantly more common in the DS group than in the U group at baseline, with no obvious differences for behavioural sleep problems. Group instruction offers some benefit regarding behavioural sleep problems but not for sleep-related breathing problems to which more attention should be paid in children with DS, with a view to precise diagnosis and treatment.
Coping with the usual family diet : eating behaviour and food choices of children with Down's syndrome, autistic spectrum disorders or cri du chat syndrome and comparison groups of siblings
- Authors:
- COLLINS Margaret S. R., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities, 7(2), June 2003, pp.137-155.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Children with learning disabilities have increased risk of delayed development of oral-motor, feeding and social skills. Questionnaires on the eating behaviour of children 2 to 18 years of age with Down's syndrome, autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) and cri du chat syndrome and their siblings were completed by their parents. Most children including the preschool children were reported to have some level of self-feeding skills. Chewing problems were reported for some children in all age groups, including not only children with a syndrome but also siblings of children with Down's syndrome and ASD. The lack of chewing skills resulted in parents feeding pureed or mashed food to their children. As no child in the study was under 2 years, the reported feeding skills were at best delayed and at worst deviant. Behavioural problems at meals and with diet were common, particularly in children with syndromes and especially in early childhood.