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- Title
The administration of psychotropic and anticonvulsant drugs to children with profound intellectual disability and multiple impairments*.
- Authors
Hogg, J.
- Abstract
A national (England and Wales) postal survey of families with a son or daughter with profound intellectual disability and multiple physical and sensory impairments who lived at home was undertaken. A section of the questionnaire dealt with prescription of major tranquilizers, drugs with a sedative function, anticonvulsants and stimulants, while among other variables information was also collected on sex, age, behaviour problems, sleep difficulties and epilepsy. Of children and adults: 5.3 and 7.9%, respectively, were receiving major tranquillizers; 2.5 and 24.5%, respectively, were prescribed drugs with a sedative function; and 53.4 and 52.7% were in receipt of anticonvulsants, with no individuals in receipt of stimulants. Only 1.5% of the total sample received major tranquillizers, drugs with a sedative function and anticonvulsants, though 18.9% were prescribed drugs from two classes, notably drugs with a sedative function and anticonvulsants. In all, 66.3% of the combined child and adult samples received at least one drug from the classes investigated. No sex bias in prescribing was found. Receipt of major tranquillizers bore some relation to reported behaviour problems, while administration of sedatives and anticonvulsants were related respectively to reports of sleep problems and occurrence of epilepsy.
- Subjects
ANTICONVULSANTS; MUSCLE relaxants; DEVELOPMENTAL disabilities; TRANQUILIZING drugs; BRAIN diseases; DRUGS &; sex
- Publication
Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 1992, Vol 36, Issue 6, p473
- ISSN
0964-2633
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2788.1992.tb00567.x