Health care for people with an intellectual disability: general practitioners' attitudes, and provision of care.

The aim of this study was to investigate general practitioners' (GPs) beliefs about the importance of addressing nine health care issues for people with intellectual disabilities, and their roles in providing this care. GPs' current level and intended future level of addressing these health care iss...

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Publicado en:Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability Vol. 25; no. 2; pp. 127 - 134
Autores principales: Lennox NG, Diggens J, Ugoni A
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jun2000
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          Lennox NG
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        affil: Director of the Developmental Disability Unit, Dept Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Queensland, Nurses Quarters, Mater Hospital, South Brisbane 4101 Australia; N.Lennox@spmed3.herston.uq.edu.au
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          Physician Attitudes
          Health Care Delivery
          Intellectual Disability Psychosocial Factors
          Physicians, Family Psychosocial Factors
          Australia
          Questionnaires
          Confidence Intervals
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      ab: The aim of this study was to investigate general practitioners' (GPs) beliefs about the importance of addressing nine health care issues for people with intellectual disabilities, and their roles in providing this care. GPs' current level and intended future level of addressing these health care issues were also determined. Questionnaires were mailed to 912 GPs Australia wide, with a 58% response rate. The vast majority of respondents agreed that the nine issues are important health care issues for people with an intellectual disability. Most respondents also agreed that it is the GPs' role to facilitate or ensure these health issues are addressed. Although having broad attitudes about their roles, GPs indicated significant deficiencies in their current level of health care provision for many of the health issues. However, they also indicated their intentions to increase the frequency of addressing these health issues in the future as a result of issues raised in previous questions on the questionnaire. This response to simply increasing GPs' awareness of their practice behaviour has a variety of important implications for training and ongoing education.
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