Intellectual disability in the children of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC)

Madley-Dowd, Paul, Thomas, Richard, Boyd, Andy, Zammit, Stanley ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2647-9211, Heron, Jon and Rai, Dheeraj 2022. Intellectual disability in the children of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). Wellcome Open Research 7 , 172. 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17803.2

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Abstract

Background: Intellectual disability (ID) describes a neurodevelopmental condition involving impaired cognitive and functional ability. Here, we describe a multisource variable of ID using data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). Methods: The multisource indicator variable for ID was derived from i) IQ scores less than 70 measured at age 8 and at age 15, ii) free text fields from parent reported questionnaires, iii) school reported provision of educational services for individuals with a statement of special educational needs for cognitive impairments, iv) from relevant READ codes contained in GP records, iv) international classification of disease diagnoses contained in electronic hospital records and hospital episode statistics and v) recorded interactions with mental health services for ID contained within the mental health services data set. A case of ID was identified if two or more sources indicated ID. A second indicator, labelled as “probable ID”, was created by relaxing the cut off in IQ scores to be less than 85. An indicator variable for known causes of ID was also created to aid in aetiological studies where ID with a known cause may need to be excluded. Results: 158 of 14,370 participants (1.10%) were indicated as having ID by two or more sources and 449 (3.12%) were indicated as having probable ID when the criteria for IQ scores was relaxed to less than 85. There were 476 participants (3.31%) with 1 or fewer sources of available information on ID; these participants had their multisource variable set to missing. The number of cases of ID with known cause was 31 (0.22% of the cohort, 19.6% of those with ID). Conclusions: The multisource variable of ID can be used in future analyses on ID in ALSPAC children.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG)
Publisher:	F1000Research
ISSN:	2398-502X
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	14 June 2022
Date of Acceptance:	1 June 2022
Last Modified:	16 Nov 2023 02:13
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/150494

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