COVID-19 pandemic impact on psychotropic prescribing for adults with intellectual disability: an observational study in English specialist community services.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has had a disproportionate impact on people with intellectual disability (PwID). PwID are at higher risk of mental illness and receive psychotropic prescribing 'off licence' also, to manage distress behaviour. The lockdown and reduction of multidisciplinary face-to-face appointments had an impact on care delivery, the recourse possibly being psychotropic prescribing. It is imperative to comprehend the influence the pandemic had on psychotropic prescribing patterns to enable future planning.

Aims

The aim was to understand the impact of the pandemic by comparing psychotropic prescribing patterns during the England lockdown with the prescribing patterns before lockdown in specialist urban and rural psychiatric services for PwID.

SUBMITTER: Naqvi D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8649353 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature