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Integrative Care for Challenging Behaviors in People with Intellectual Disabilities to Reduce Challenging Behaviors and Inappropriate Psychotropic Drug Prescribing Compared with Care as Usual: A Cluster-Randomized Trial

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  • Gerda de Kuijper

    (Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands
    Mental Healthcare Drenthe, Department Centre for intellectual Disability and Mental Health, Middenweg 19, 9404 LL Assen, The Netherlands)

  • Josien Jonker

    (Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands
    Mental Healthcare Drenthe, Department Centre for intellectual Disability and Mental Health, Middenweg 19, 9404 LL Assen, The Netherlands)

  • Karlijn Kouwer

    (Mental Healthcare Drenthe, Department Centre for intellectual Disability and Mental Health, Middenweg 19, 9404 LL Assen, The Netherlands
    Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Jonas Lies Vei 91, 5009 Bergen, Norway)

  • Pieter J. Hoekstra

    (Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands
    Accare Child Study Center, Lübeckweg 2, 9723 HE Groningen, The Netherlands
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Annelies de Bildt

    (Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands
    Accare Child Study Center, Lübeckweg 2, 9723 HE Groningen, The Netherlands
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

Abstract

People with intellectual disabilities (IDs) often present with challenging behaviors (CBs) mostly due to inappropriate environments and mental and physical disorders. Integrative care is recommended to address CBs. However, in clinical practice, psychotropic drugs are often prescribed off-label for CBs, although the effectiveness is unclear, and side effects frequently occur. We conducted a cluster-randomized controlled study to investigate the effect of integrative care provided by a collaboration of an ID specialized mental healthcare team and participants’ own ID service providers’ care team on reducing CBs and inappropriate off-label psychotropic drug prescriptions compared with care as usual. Participants ( N = 33, aged 19–81 years) had a moderate, severe, or profound intellectual disability and used off-label psychotropic drugs. The primary outcome measures were the Aberrant Behavior Checklist and the total dose of psychotropic drug prescriptions. At the study endpoint of 40 weeks, we found no effect of the intervention on the total ABC score and on the total dose of psychotropic drug prescriptions. In the intervention group, however, the psychotropic drug dose decreased significantly, while CBs did not change. The small sample size and not-completed interventions due to organizational problems may have affected our findings. This study illustrates the difficulties in the implementation of integrative care.

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  • Gerda de Kuijper & Josien Jonker & Karlijn Kouwer & Pieter J. Hoekstra & Annelies de Bildt, 2024. "Integrative Care for Challenging Behaviors in People with Intellectual Disabilities to Reduce Challenging Behaviors and Inappropriate Psychotropic Drug Prescribing Compared with Care as Usual: A Clust," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 21(7), pages 1-19, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:21:y:2024:i:7:p:950-:d:1439119
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    1. Gerda de Kuijper & Joke de Haan & Shoumitro Deb & Rohit Shankar, 2022. "Withdrawing Antipsychotics for Challenging Behaviours in Adults with Intellectual Disabilities: Experiences and Views of Prescribers," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(24), pages 1-11, December.
    2. Janouk C. bij de Weg & Aline K. Honingh & Marieke Teeuw & Paula S. Sterkenburg, 2021. "An Exploratory Study among Intellectual Disability Physicians on the Care and Coercion Act and the Use of Psychotropic Drugs for Challenging Behaviour," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(19), pages 1-12, September.
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