Sexual and reproductive health care for women with intellectual disabilities: a primary care perspective.

ABSTRACT: Adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) face multiple health disparities and challenges to accessing health care. Little is known about sexual health care of this population and about how to optimize women's reproductive health care for women with intellectual disabilities. Women with ID face important barriers to care, including lack of provider training and experience, hesitancy to broach the topic of sexual health, a lack of sexual knowledge and limited opportunities for sex education, disability-related barriers, higher prevalence of sexual abuse and assault, often underreported, lack of dialogue around this population's human right to consensual sexual expression, undertreatment of menstrual disorders, and legal and systemic barriers. We conducted a limited literature review relate

SUBMITTER: Greenwood NW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3876698 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature