Experiences of psychotropic medication use and decision-making for adults with intellectual disability: a multistakeholder qualitative study in the UK.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Understanding patient and carer perspectives is essential to improving the quality of medication prescribing. This study aimed to explore experiences of psychotropic medication use among people with intellectual disability (ID) and their carers, with a focus on how medication decisions are made.

Design

Thematic analysis of data collected in individual semistructured interviews.

Participants and setting

Fourteen adults with ID, 12 family carers and 12 paid carers were recruited from specialist psychiatry services, community groups, care providers and training organisations in the UK.

Results

People with ID reported being highly compliant with psychotropic medication, based on a largely unquestioned view of medication as important and necessary, and be

SUBMITTER: Sheehan R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6887070 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature