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Screening for psychiatric disorders in a total population of adults with intellectual disability and challenging behaviour using the PAS-ADD checklist
- Authors:
- ALLEN David, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 25(4), July 2012, pp.342-349.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The nature of the relationship between psychiatric disorders and challenging behaviour in people with intellectual disabilities is the subject of debate; a picture that is confused by challenging behaviour itself sometimes being classified as a form of psychiatric disorder. The authors explore this relationship in a population sample of adults with challenging behaviour. More than 800 service settings in a defined geographical area in Wales were screened to identify individuals with challenging behaviour. Detailed behavioural data, Psychiatric Assessment Schedule for Adults with a Developmental Disability (PAS-ADD) checklist and Adaptive Behaviour Scale (Part 1) scores were collected for 76% of the 930 adults identified. Just under 17% of participants reached threshold scores on one on more subscales of the PAS-ADD checklist. There was some evidence of increasing behavioural severity being associated with increasing psychiatric symptoms but there were no associations between specific forms of challenging behaviour and individual symptoms. The authors conclude that these data support previous suggestions that it is unlikely that the majority of challenging behaviours in adults with intellectual disability are underpinned by psychiatric disorders.