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C Peña-Salazar1,2,3,4, N Kazah4, B Carrillo5
1Neurology Department, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain.
Background:
People with intellectual disabilities often present a discrepancy between emotional and cognitive development, which may play a role in the presence of some psychiatric disorders and problem behaviour (PB).
Method:
Observational, cross-sectional study of 192 adults with intellectual disabilities and psychiatric disorders.
Results:
We found a statistically significant relationship between level of emotional development (ED) and degree of intellectual disability, as well as with severity of PB and some kinds of neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders. In a regression model, 61% of the variance in the global emotional development variable is explained by the variables: Intellectual disability mild-moderate and severe (B = -1.058; p < 0.001), Intellectual disability mild and moderate-severe (B = -0.118; p < 0.05), PB (B = -0.352; p < 0.005), autism spectrum disorder (ASD) (B = -0.129; p < 0.05) and adaptive behaviour (B = 0.017; p < 0.001).
Conclusions:
Level of ED could be a key factor in the severity of PB and in the presence of some psychiatric disorders in people with intellectual disabilities.
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