Rates and causes of mortality among children and young people with and without intellectual disabilities in Scotland: a record linkage cohort study of 796 190 school children.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate mortality rates and causes in children and young people with intellectual disabilities.

Design

Retrospective cohort; individual record linkage between Scotland's annual pupil census and National Records of Scotland death register.

Setting

General community.

Participants

Pupils receiving local authority-funded schooling in Scotland, 2008 to 2013, with an Additional Support Need due to intellectual disabilities, compared with other pupils.

Main outcome measures

Deaths up to 2015: age of death, age-standardised mortality ratios (age-SMRs); causes of death including cause-specific age-SMRs; avoidable deaths as defined by the UK Office of National Statistics.

Results

18 278/947 922 (1.9%) pupils had intellectual disabilities.

SUBMITTER: Smith GS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7418667 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature