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The reported experience of four women with intellectual disabilities receiving emergency psychiatric services in Canada
- Authors:
- LUNSKY Yona, GRACEY Carolyn
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 13(2), June 2009, pp.87-98.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Place of publication:
- London
A focus group study was conducted in 2005 in Toronto, Canada with four women with intellectual disabilities who had paid repeated visits to their local emergency department due to a psychiatric or behavioural crisis. These women spoke about not feeling respected, the trauma of being restrained physically or chemically, and about hospital staff not being comfortable working with women with intellectual disabilities. Clinical implications are discussed and recommendations are presented to improve the experience of women who require emergency services in the future.
Women be healthy: evaluation of a women's health curriculum for women with intellectual disabilities
- Authors:
- LUNSKY Yona, STRAIKO Amy, ARMSTRONG Sharon
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 16(4), December 2003, pp.247-253.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Insufficient attention has been paid towards treating the unique health needs of women with intellectual disabilities. This paper describes an 8-week curriculum, 'Women Be Healthy', developed for women with intellectual disabilities to help them become more equal partners in their health care. The curriculum includes psycho-education, coping skills training, exposure to the medical setting and assertiveness training. Twenty-two women completed assessments of health knowledge, health behaviour beliefs and coping strategies, prior to and following participation in the 8-week curriculum, which took place in a group setting at a clinic for people with intellectual disabilities. Women showed significant improvements in health knowledge, health behaviour beliefs and coping strategies following intervention, and maintained some of these treatment gains (health knowledge and health behaviour beliefs) at a 10-week follow-up. 'Women Be Healthy' is an example of a group-based intervention that helps women with intellectual disabilities become more knowledgeable and perhaps more comfortable with health-care procedures.