Forensic mental health intellectual and developmental disability service: an analysis of referral patterns and comparison with community mental health intellectual disability (MHID) services in Ireland

Forensic mental health intellectual and developmental disability service: an analysis of referral patterns and comparison with community mental health intellectual disability (MHID) services in Ireland Afwan Abdul Wahab, Calvin Har, Sarah Casey, Hugh Ramsay, Brendan McCormack, Niamh Mulryan, Anita Ambikapathy, Anthony Kearns Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- The purpose of this study is to analyse the characteristics of all the referrals to the forensic MHIDD service over the past five years and to compare these characteristics to the cohort of service users attending the three general MHID services based in Dublin which are Service 1, Service 2 and Service 3.This is a cross-sectional study of adults attending the three generic MHID services and the national forensic MHIDD service. The medical files of service users attending the MHID services were reviewed, and data such as age, gender, level of intellectual disability and psychiatric diagnoses were extracted and compiled into a database. The forensic MHIDD service has since its inception maintained a database of all referrals received and reviewed. The characteristics data needed were extracted from the forensic MHIDD database. All these data were then analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS).The majority of the three MHID service users were in the moderate to profound range of intellectual disability, while the majority of the c...

Source: Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities - October 31, 2023 Category: Disability Authors: Afwan Abdul Wahab Calvin Har Sarah Casey Hugh Ramsay Brendan McCormack Niamh Mulryan Anita Ambikapathy Anthony Kearns Source Type: research