The prevalence and incidence of mental ill-health in adults with autism and intellectual disabilities

Craig Melville; Sally-Ann Cooper; Jillian Morrison; Elita Smiley; Linda Allan; Alison Jackson; Janet Finlayson; Dipali Mantry

doi:10.1007/s10803-008-0549-7

The prevalence and incidence of mental ill-health in adults with autism and intellectual disabilities

Craig Melville, Sally-Ann Cooper, Jillian Morrison, Elita Smiley, Linda Allan, Alison Jackson, Janet Finlayson, Dipali Mantry

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Abstract

The prevalence, and incidence, of mental ill-health in adults with intellectual disabilities and autism were compared with the whole population with intellectual disabilities, and with controls, matched individually for age, gender, ability-level, and Down syndrome. Although the adults with autism had a higher point prevalence of problem behaviours compared with the whole adult population with intellectual disabilities, compared with individually matched controls there was no difference in prevalence, or incidence of either problem behaviours or other mental ill-health.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1676-1688
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Volume	38
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-008-0549-7
Publication status	Published - Oct 2008

Keywords

intellectual disabilities
autism
mental health

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