ArticleJournal of intellectual disability research : JIDR2022
Healthcare utilisation and unmet health needs in children with intellectual disability: a propensity score matching approach using longitudinal cohort data.
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- The Views and Experiences of Families and Registered Nurses Regarding Hospital Care and Support of Children With Intellectual Disabilities: A Systematic Review.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARID · 2026Pooled it
- Healthcare Utilisation and Barriers and Facilitators of Healthcare Access for Young People With Intellectual Disability: A Systematic Review.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR · 2026Pooled it
- Pre-pandemic and pandemic healthcare utilisation among children with intellectual disabilities compared to the general population: a register study (IDcare).BMJ paediatrics open · 2026Article
- Predictors of mental illness onset in adolescents and adults with intellectual disability: A retrospective cohort study in New South Wales, Australia.The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
- Co-Producing Patient-Reported Experience Measures With People With Intellectual Disability to Improve Healthcare Quality and Outcomes: The 'Listen to Me' Project Protocol.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025Article
- Identifying challenges in meeting the unmet health care needs of children with intellectual disabilities: a scoping review.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- IDcare - a longitudinal register study of pre-pandemic and pandemic health care utilization and diagnostic profiles among people with intellectual disabilities in southern Sweden.European journal of epidemiology · 2024Article
- A comparison of factors associated with unmet healthcare needs in people with disabilities before and after COVID-19: a nationally representative population-based study.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Current services and outcomes of formerly institutionalised and never-institutionalised US adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities: A propensity score matching analysis.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARID · 2023Article
- Healthcare utilisation and unmet health needs in children with intellectual disability: a propensity score matching approach using longitudinal cohort data.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundHealth disparities for children with intellectual disabilities can be challenging to measure due to many other factors that can impact health and healthcare use. The aim of the current study was to use longitudinal cohort data to compare children with intellectual disability (ID) in Ireland between 2006 and 2014 on healthcare utilisation and unmet need, at ages 9 and 13, using a propensity score matching (PSM) approach.
methodsUsing data from the Growing up in Ireland study, PSM was used to identify an appropriate control sample to compare with a sample of children with ID (n = 124). Participants were matched on variables that are known to influence healthcare utilisation to reduce the impact of confounding variables between groups so that differences between the groups can be estimated. Logistic regression was used to estimate effects at ages 9 and 13.
resultsChildren with ID were no more likely to have visited a general practitioner or emergency department in the past 12 months than children without ID. They did have a greater likelihood of visiting a doctor in a hospital in the past 12 months and of having an overnight stay in hospital by age 9. Primary caregivers of children with ID were more likely to report unmet health needs at ages 9 and 13.
conclusionsThis approach is a novel means of comparing healthcare use in this population by balancing the impact of other factors that may result in inequities, to which children with ID may be more vulnerable.
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