ReviewBJPsych open2022
A systematic review of in-patient psychiatric care for people with intellectual disabilities and/or autism: effectiveness, patient safety and experience.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 46 citations in OpenAlex.
- A Systematic Review of Outcomes for People With Intellectual Disabilities and/or Autistic People Following Resettlement From Long-Stay Hospitals in the UK.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARID · 2026Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Staff Perspectives on Safety on Psychiatric Wards.Nursing & health sciences · 2025Pooled it
- Long-Stay Psychiatric Inpatients With and Without Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: An Ontario Population-Based Study: Patients hospitalisés pour de longs séjours en psychiatrie avec ou sans déficiences intellectuelles et développementales,: Une étude fondée sur la population de l'Ontario.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2026Article
- Brief Report: Healthcare Utilization and Expenditure Trends Among Autistic Transition Age Youth.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- A longitudinal analysis of the prevalence of restrictive interventions involving women with mental health conditions, learning disabilities or autism in mental health services in England.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Integration of specialized residential interventions with community-based services for autistic adults with severe challenging behaviors: preliminary evidence from the Piedmont model.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
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- Factors Affecting Psychiatric Bed Utilisation by People With Intellectual Disabilities: A Time Series Analysis Using the English National Mental Health Services Data Set.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR · 2025Article
- Specialist Psychiatric Bed Utilisation by People With Intellectual Disabilities and Autistic People: A Time-Series Analysis Using the English Assuring Transformation Dataset.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR · 2025Article
- Inpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Youth with Autism and/or Intellectual Disabilities: Clinical Characteristics and Considerations.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Characteristics and outcomes of individuals screening positive for borderline personality disorder on an adult inpatient psychiatry unit: a cross-sectional study.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Factors Associated With Length of Hospital Stay for Forensic Psychiatric Inpatients With Intellectual Disabilities.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARID · 2025Article
- Using Case-Based Teaching: Does Our Dysregulated Hospitalized Patient Have Borderline Personality or Autism Spectrum Disorder?Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry · 2025Article
- Outcome Measures in intellectual disability: A Review and narrative synthesis of validated instruments.The International journal of social psychiatry · 2025Review
- Barriers to healthcare predict reduced health-related quality of life in autistic adults without intellectual disability.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2025Article
- "Constantly overwhelmed and desperate for help": Parents' experiences of supporting their autistic child with mental health difficulties in the United Kingdom.PLOS mental health · 2025Article
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- The Future of General Psychiatry Must Include Autism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual Disability.Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry · 2024Article
- Exploring the Trajectory of Catatonia in Neurodiverse and Neurotypical Pediatric Hospitalizations: A Multicenter Longitudinal Analysis.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Characterizing the clinical and sociodemographic profiles of hospitalized adolescents with autism spectrum disorder.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2024Article
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9 authors at 7 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundAn increasing number of children, adolescents and adults with intellectual disabilities and/or autism are being admitted to general psychiatric wards and cared for by general psychiatrists.
aimsThe aim of this systematic review was to consider the likely effectiveness of in-patient treatment for this population, and compare and contrast differing models of in-patient care.
methodA systematic search was completed to identify papers where authors had reported data about the effectiveness of in-patient admissions with reference to one of three domains: treatment effect (e.g. length of stay, clinical outcome, readmission), patient safety (e.g. restrictive practices) and patient experience (e.g. patient or family satisfaction). Where possible, outcomes associated with admission were considered further within the context of differing models of in-patient care (e.g. specialist in-patient services versus general mental health in-patient services).
resultsA total of 106 studies were included and there was evidence that improvements in mental health, social functioning, behaviour and forensic risk were associated with in-patient admission. There were two main models of in-patient psychiatric care described within the literature: admission to a specialist intellectual disability or general mental health in-patient service. Patients admitted to specialist intellectual disability in-patient services had greater complexity, but there were additional benefits, including fewer out-of-area discharges and lower seclusion rates.
conclusionsThere was evidence that admission to in-patient services was associated with improvements in mental health for this population. There was some evidence indicating better outcomes for those admitted to specialist services.
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