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Correlates of restraint use in an institutional population: a replication
Author(s) -
Sturmey P.,
Lott J. D.,
Laud R.,
Matson J. L.
Publication year - 2005
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.1365-2788.2005.00703.x
Subject(s) - replication (statistics) , psychology , population , psychiatry , clinical psychology , medicine , virology , environmental health
Background Reducing inappropriate restraint is an important mission of services for people with intellectual disabilities (IDs). Methods In this study, 52 clients who had been restrained were compared with 52 other clients, individually matched on age, gender and level of IDs. Participants were mostly adults with severe and profound IDs in an institutional setting. Results The two groups differed on six Diagnostic Assessment for the Severely Handicapped‐II (DASH‐II) and three Aberrant Behaviour Checklist (ABC) scales. However, discriminant functional analysis demonstrated that only DASH‐II Impulse control disorder and ABC Irritability and Elimination disorder scores predicted group membership but only moderately. Conclusions Individual differences in maladaptive behaviours were only moderately predictive of restraint use.