Buono, Serafino, Scannella, Fabio, Palmigiano, Maria Bernadette, Elia, Maurizio, Kerr, Michael Patrick and Di Nuovo, Santo 2012. Self-injury in people with intellectual disability and epilepsy: a matched controlled study. Seizure - European Journal of Epilepsy 21 (3) , pp. 160-164. 10.1016/j.seizure.2011.10.008 |
Abstract
We aimed to identify the presence of self-injurious behavior in a sample of 158 people with intellectual disability and epilepsy as compared with a control sample consisting of 195 people with intellectual disability without epilepsy. The Italian Scale for the Assessment of self-injurious behaviors was used to describe self-injurious behavior in both groups. The groups were matched for ID degree: mild/moderate (20 and 20 respectively), severe/profound (45 in both samples) and unknown (4 in both samples). Seventy-four percent of the first sample were diagnosed with symptomatic partial epilepsy. The prevalence of self-injurious behaviors was 44% in the group with intellectual disability and epilepsy and 46.5% in the group with intellectual disability without epilepsy (difference not significant). The areas most affected by self-injurious behaviors in both samples were the hands, the mouth and the head. The most frequent types of self-injurious behaviors were self-biting, self-hitting with hands and with objects. Self-injurious behavior is frequently observed in individuals with epilepsy and intellectual disability. Our study does not suggest that the presence of epilepsy is a risk factor for self-injurious behavior in this patient group.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | Medicine MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG) |
Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | self-injurious behavior, localization, topography, intellectual disability, epilepsy, seizures |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
ISSN: | 1059-1311 |
Last Modified: | 04 Jun 2017 04:34 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/41289 |
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