ArticleCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien2015
Care of adults with developmental disabilities: Effects of a continuing education course for primary care providers.
Article in Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Education and training for health professionals on disability inclusion: a scoping review.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Health professional education in autism and intellectual disability: systematic review.BJPsych open · 2025Review
- Impacts of continuing education for health professionals in primary health care: A scoping review.PloS one · 2025Article
- Inter-professional education and primary care: EFPC position paper.Primary health care research & development · 2019Article
- Improving the quality of primary care for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities: Value of the periodic health examination.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2019Article
- Long-term condition management in adults with intellectual disability in primary care: a systematic review.BJGP open · 2018Article
- Exploring the prenatal experience of women with intellectual and developmental disabilities: In a southeastern Ontario family health team.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2018Article
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- Approaches to primary care of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities: Importance of frameworks for guidelines.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2018Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo evaluate the effects of an interdisciplinary, guideline-based continuing education course on measures related to the care of adults with developmental disabilities (DD).
designBefore-and-after study with a control group.
settingOntario.
participantsForty-seven primary care providers (physicians, registered nurses, and nurse practitioners).
interventionParticipants either only received reference material about primary care of people with DD (control group) or participated in a continuing education course on primary care of people with DD in addition to receiving the reference material (intervention group).
main outcome measuresParticipants reported on 5 key measures related to care of adults with DD: frequency of using guidelines, frequency of performing periodic health examinations, frequency of assessing patients who present with behaviour changes, level of comfort while caring for adults with DD, and knowledge of primary care related to adults with DD.
resultsOver time, the intervention group showed significant increases in 4 of the 5 key measures of care compared with the control group: the frequency of guideline use (P < .001), frequency of assessment of patients' behaviour change (P = .03), comfort level in caring for people with DD (P = .01), and knowledge of primary care related to adults with DD (P = .01).
conclusionA continuing education course on primary care of adults with DD is a useful interdisciplinary model to train health professionals who provide primary care services to these patients.
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