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Hospitalisation rates for epilepsy, asthma and insulin-dependent diabetes in 796 190 school-aged children and young people with and without intellectual disabilities: a record-linkage cohort study.
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- Pre-pandemic and pandemic healthcare utilisation among children with intellectual disabilities compared to the general population: a register study (IDcare).BMJ paediatrics open · 2026Article
- Barriers and Enablers of Delivering Asthma Self-Management to Those With Intellectual Disabilities: A Scoping Review.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARID · 2025Article
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objectivesTo investigate hospitalisation rates for the ambulatory care-sensitive conditions of epilepsy, asthma and insulin-dependent diabetes in school-aged children and young people with intellectual disabilities in comparison with their peers.
designRecord-linkage cohort study. Scotland's Pupil Census, 2008-2013, was used to identify pupils with and without intellectual disabilities and was linked with the Prescribing Information Service to identify pupils with epilepsy, asthma and insulin-dependent diabetes, and the Scottish Morbidity Records-01 to identify hospital admissions.
settingThe general child population of Scotland.
participantsSchool pupils aged 4-19 years; 18 278 with intellectual disabilities and 777 912 without intellectual disabilities. OUTCOMES: Overall, emergency and non-emergency hospitalisations for epilepsy, asthma and/or diabetes; and length of stay.
resultsEpilepsy and asthma were more prevalent in pupils with intellectual disabilities (8.8% and 8.9%, respectively, compared with 0.8% and 6.9% among pupils without intellectual disabilities, p<0.001), whereas insulin-dependent diabetes was not (0.5% prevalence). After adjusting for prevalence, pupils with intellectual disabilities and epilepsy had more epilepsy-related admissions than their peers (adjusted Hazard Ratio (aHR) 2.24, 95% CI 1.97, 2.55). For emergency admissions, these stays were longer compared with controls (adjusted incidence rate ratio (aIRR) 2.77, 95% CI 2.13, 3.59). Pupils with intellectual disabilities and asthma had similar admission rates due to asthma as control pupils with asthma (aHR 0.81, 95% CI 0.62, 1.06), but emergency admissions were longer (aIRR 2.72, 95% CI 1.49, 4.96). Pupils with intellectual disabilities and insulin-dependent diabetes had similar admission rates to controls (aHR 0.94, 95% CI 0.63, 1.41) but with shorter admissions (aIRR 0.71, 95% CI 0.51, 0.99).
conclusionsOur findings suggest pupils with intellectual disabilities may receive poorer community healthcare than their peers for the common conditions of epilepsy and asthma. Hospital admissions are disruptive for both the child and their family. Epilepsy and asthma are associated with avoidable deaths; hence, a better understanding of these hospitalisations is important.
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