Project ECHO-AIDD: recommendations for care of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities
Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities
ISSN: 2044-1282
Article publication date: 1 November 2023
Issue publication date: 8 November 2023
Abstract
Purpose
This study aims to describe patients presented in an interprofessional, virtual education program focused on the mental health of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), as well as present interprofessional recommendations for care.
Design/methodology/approach
In this retrospective chart review, descriptive statistics were used to describe patients. Content analysis was used to analyze interprofessional recommendations. The authors used the H.E.L.P. (health, environment, lived experience and psychiatric disorder) framework to conceptualize and analyze the interprofessional recommendations.
Findings
Themes related to the needs of adults with IDD are presented according to the H.E.L.P. framework. Taking a team-based approach to care, as well as ensuring care provider knowledge of health and social histories, may help better tailor care.
Originality/value
This project draws on knowledge presented in a national interprofessional and intersectoral educational initiative, the first in Canada to focus on this population.
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Acknowledgements
The authors thank Dr Elizabeth Grier for her assistance and contributions, as well as the service providers and their patients whose experiences have informed this work.
Declaration of interest: The authors declare no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship and/or the publication of this article.
Funding: This study was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Operating grant MS2‐173090), the Azrieli Foundation, the Queen’s University Thomas M. and Louise A. Brown Research Studentship and the CAMH Koerner Research Scholars: Research Studentship Program for Health Professional Trainees (CAMH 2021-1096).
Author contributions: All authors made substantial contributions to the study design, data analysis and manuscript revision. All authors approved the final submitted version. O.M. attests that all listed authors meet authorship criteria and that no others meeting the criteria have been omitted.
Citation
Mendoza, O., Thakur, A., Niel, U., Thomson, K., Lunsky, Y. and Bobbette, N. (2023), "Project ECHO-AIDD: recommendations for care of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities", Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, Vol. 17 No. 4, pp. 292-309. https://doi.org/10.1108/AMHID-06-2023-0019
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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