Mental illness, challenging behaviour, and psychotropic drug prescribing in people with intellectual disability: UK population based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe the incidence of recorded mental illness and challenging behaviour in people with intellectual disability in UK primary care and to explore the prescription of psychotropic drugs in this group.

Design

Cohort study.

Setting

571 general practices contributing data to The Health Improvement Network clinical database.

Participants

33,016 adults (58% male) with intellectual disability who contributed 211,793 person years' data.

Main outcome measures

Existing and new records of mental illness, challenging behaviour, and psychotropic drug prescription.

Results

21% (7065) of the cohort had a record of mental illness at study entry, 25% (8300) had a record of challenging behaviour, and 49% (16,242) had a record of prescription of psy

SUBMITTER: Sheehan R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4556752 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature