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- Title
"It does change the narrative for health and social care" views of clinical and homeless service staff about the use of intellectual disability screening tools within homeless support pathways in the north of England.
- Authors
Metcalfe, Dale; McKenzie, Karen; Murray, George; Shirley, Alex
- Abstract
Homelessness is a worldwide health inequality. People with intellectual disability represent a relatively high proportion of homeless people, and for many their intellectual disability is not recognised. The study intended to obtain stakeholder views about how intellectual disability screening can be integrated into the support pathway for people who are homeless. A qualitative approach was taken using Thematic Analysis. Nine staff, who work with homeless people or are involved in the intellectual disability assessment pathway, were interviewed. Analysis produced three themes, each containing two subthemes. 'Current routes to support' investigates experiences of the existing pathway; 'Labels', explores views about making intellectual disability visible; 'Creating a pathway,' outlines ideas about developing and implementing a screening pathway between services. The results help inform how current practices of identifying people with intellectual disability might be improved and the role of screening in this. These results, when combined with other research around screening tools, provide insight into how intellectual disability screening can be integrated within services.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; QUALITATIVE research; RESEARCH funding; DISABILITY evaluation; INTERVIEWING; CONFIDENCE; INTELLECTUAL disabilities; THEMATIC analysis; ORGANIZATIONAL change; MEDICAL screening; STAKEHOLDER analysis; PROFESSIONAL competence
- Publication
Journal of Policy & Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 2024, Vol 21, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
1741-1122
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jppi.12522