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The mental health needs of children and adolescents with learning disabilities in Manchester: results of a city-wide survey
- Authors:
- EMERSON Eric, ROBERTSON Janet
- Publisher:
- University of Lancaster. Institute for Health Research
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Just under half of all school-age children with learning difficulties in Manchester also have significant mental health needs. Significant levels of unmet mental health need were more common among children who were more delayed in the area of communication and children who had difficulty seeing. Just under half of the informal carers (primarily mothers) of children with learning difficulties in Manchester also have significant mental health needs. Significant levels of unmet mental health need were more common among carers who were bringing up a child who had significant mental health problems or a child who was more delayed in communicating, belonged to a South Asian minority ethnic community or lived in central Manchester. Specialised services for children with mental health needs only reached a minority of children in need.
Use of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnarie to assess the mental health needs of children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities
- Author:
- EMERSON Eric
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 30(1), March 2005, pp.14-23.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This study sought to determine the reliability and validity of the child, carer and teacher versions of the extended Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) when used with children and young people with learning disabilities. Secondary analysis was undertaken of a nationally representative survey of the mental health of 4,449 children between 11 and 15 years of age in Great Britain. Data were extracted on an operationally defined sub-sample of 98 children with intellectual disabilities, and on 4,074 children without intellectual disabilities. Results found all scales on the SDQ proved to be internally consistent. Acceptable levels of validity were found by examining: (1) correspondence between parallel child, carer and teacher versions of the SDQ; (2) association between SDQ scores and ICD-10 diagnoses. The study concludes that the extended SDQ appears to provide a simple robust measure of the mental health needs of children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities.
Developing an evidence base for violent and disablist hate crime in Britain: findings from the Life Opportunities Survey
- Authors:
- EMERSON Eric, ROULSTONE Alan
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 29(17), 2014, pp.3086-3104.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The U.K.’s Life Opportunities Survey was used to examine disabled people’s self-reported exposure to violent crime, hate crime, and disablist hate crime in the UK over a 12 month period. Information was collected from a nationally representative sample of 37,513 British adults (age 16 or older). Results indicated that (a) disabled adults were significantly more likely to have been exposed over the previous 12 months to violent crime and hate crime than their non-disabled peers, (b) the differential risk of exposure to violent crime was particularly elevated among disabled adults with mental health problems, (c) the differential risk of exposure to hate crime was particularly elevated among disabled adults with mental health problems or cognitive impairments; and (d) these effects were strongly moderated by poverty status with no increase in differential risk of exposure for disabled adults among more wealthy respondents. (Edited publisher abstract)
Improving health and lives: the Learning Disabilities Public Health Observatory
- Authors:
- EMERSON Eric, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, 6(1), 2012, pp.26-32.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
People with intellectual disabilities experience significant health inequalities. This paper describes an innovative approach to helping English local agencies make the best use of available information in order to commission services that may reduce these inequalities. The authors describe the first 15 months of operation of a specialist national public health observatory for intellectual disability. The Learning Disabilities Public Health Observatory (LDPHO) was established in April 2010. It is organisationally based within the North East Public Health Observatory. The authors provide a narrative account of the aims and achievements of the service. Since its inception the observatory has: made available to those involved in commissioning health and social care services, a wealth of information on the health needs of people with intellectual disabilities; identified specific improvements that could viably be made to increase the quality of future information; and begun working with local agencies to support them in making the best use of the available information.
Reducing the risks
- Authors:
- EMERSON Eric, HATTON Chris
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, May 2007, pp.23-25.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
This article reports on research which used combined data from the 1999 ONS survey of the mental health of children and adolescents in Great Britain and a second survey in 2004 to investigate: the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among children and adolescents with learning disabilities in Great Britain; the extent to which learning disabilities represent a risk factor for psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents; the extent to which risk factors for psychiatric disorder within the population of children and adolescents with learning disabilities correspond to those within the general child and adolescent population; and the support available to families with a child with learning disabilities and psychiatric disorders. The results found that poverty and social exclusion puts children and young people with learning disabilities at far greater risk of mental health problems.
Use of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire to assess the mental health needs of children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities
- Author:
- EMERSON Eric
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 30(1), March 2005, pp.14-23.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Over the last decade increased attention has been paid to identifying and responding to the mental health needs of children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities. There is, however, little information available on the use of self-report scales by young people with intellectual disabilities. This study sought to determine the reliability and validity of the child, carer and teacher versions of the extended Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) when used with this population. Secondary analysis was undertaken of a nationally representative survey of the mental health of 4,449 children between 11 and 15 years of age in Great Britain. Data were extracted on an operationally defined sub-sample of 98 children with intellectual disabilities, and on 4,074 children without intellectual disabilities.All scales on the SDQ proved to be internally consistent. Acceptable levels of validity were found by examining: (1) correspondence between parallel child, carer and teacher versions of the SDQ; (2) association between SDQ scores and ICD-10 diagnoses. The results conclude that the extended SDQ appears to provide a simple robust measure of the mental health needs of children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities.