Challenges in Providing Reproductive and Gynecologic Care to Women With Intellectual Disabilities: A Review of Existing Literature.

Our review aims to focus on identifying challenges faced by intellectually disabled women (IDW) in receiving gynecological and reproductive care and also highlights evidence based strategies to overcome those challenges. We conducted a literature review discussing challenges faced by IDW in obtaining healthcare services by thorough search on various electronic databases (PubMed, Google Scholar, and Scopus) starting from 2000 to 28 August 2021 excluding all non-english articles, reviews, editorials and letters to editor. The keywords used for search were "reproductive care", "gynecologic care", "intellectual disability", "mental handicap", and "mental retardation".