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Staffing and staff performance in services for people with severe or profound learning disability and serious challenging behaviour
Author(s) -
Mansell J.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1995.tb00907.x
Subject(s) - staffing , challenging behaviour , learning disability , psychology , intellectual disability , gerontology , nursing , medicine , psychiatry
Eighteen people with severe or profound learning disability and very serious challenging behaviour were tracked for four and a half years. Thirteen subjects moved to staffed houses in the community. A multiple time‐series design and direct observation were used to evaluate whether there was any change in staffing and staffcontact. The houses had higher staff ratios and proportionately even higher levels of assistance and other contact with clients, who showed significant improvement in engagement in meaningilil activity without overall increase in major problem behaviour.