Effect of Incorporating Adaptive Functioning Scores on the Prevalence of Intellectual Disability

Autor/inn/en	Obi, Obianuju; Braun, Kim Van Naarden; Baio, Jon; Drews-Botsch, Carolyn; Devine, Owen; Yeargin-Allsopp, Marshalyn
Titel	Effect of Incorporating Adaptive Functioning Scores on the Prevalence of Intellectual Disability
Quelle	In: American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 116 (2011) 5, S.360-370 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1944-7515
DOI	10.1352/1944-7558-116.5.360
Schlagwörter	Incidence; Measurement; Mental Retardation; Scores; Children; Individual Characteristics; Socioeconomic Background; Severity (of Disability); Intelligence Quotient; Georgia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Vorkommen; Messverfahren; Geistige Behinderung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Sozioökonomische Lage; Schweregrad; Intelligenzquotient
Abstract	Surveillance and epidemiologic research on intellectual disability often do not incorporate adaptive functioning (AF) data. Exclusion of AF data leads to overestimation of the prevalence of intellectual disability, the extent of which is not known. In this study, the authors evaluated the effect of incorporating AF data on overall intellectual disability prevalence according to sociodemographic, economic, and severity characteristics. Between 2002 and 2006, the Metropolitan Atlanta Developmental Disabilities Surveillance Program identified 1,595 8-year-old children who met the study's intellectual disability surveillance-case definition of IQ [less than or equal to] 70. AF scores were not available for 9.2% of the case children, specifically those with mild intellectual disability and low socioeconomic backgrounds. Prevalence estimates showed few substantive changes when incorporating AF data. The authors conclude that use of IQ data alone appears to be appropriate for measuring population intellectual disability prevalence. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10