Current practice and adaptations being made for people with autism admitted to in-patient psychiatric services across the UK.

Background: A significant number of people with autism require in-patient psychiatric care. Although the requirement to adequately meet the needs of people with autism in these settings is enshrined in UK law and supported by national guidelines, little information is available on current practice.

Aims: To describe characteristics of UK in-patient psychiatric settings admitting people with autism.

Exposure of children with developmental delay to social determinants of poor health: cross-sectional case record review study.

Background: Research on child development in general has highlighted the importance that the family environment plays in mediating the pathway between exposure to low socio-economic position (SEP) and child well-being. While child developmental models in intellectual disability have highlighted the interplay between social context, family environment and child development, little empirical work has attempted to formally evaluate the evidence in support of specific mediating pathways between low SEP and child outcomes.

Methods: Secondary analysis of cross-sectional confidentialized needs analysis data collected in three Primary Care Trusts in England covering a total population of 1.

The developmental health of children of parents with intellectual disabilities: cross sectional study.

In a representative population-based sample of 46,025 families caring for a young child, parental intellectual disability (identified in 588 families) was associated with increased risk of child developmental delay, child speech and language problems, child behaviour problems and frequent child accidents and injuries. Parental intellectual disability was also associated with increased risk of exposure to a wide range of environmental adversities such as poverty, poor housing and social isolation. Adjusting for between-group differences in exposure to low socio-economic position reduced the risk of adverse child outcomes by over 50% on each of the four measures of child developmental health.

Health behaviours and mental health status of parents with intellectual disabilities: cross sectional study.

Objectives: The authors sought to: (1) estimate the prevalence of health behaviours, mental health and exposure to social determinants of poorer health among parents with and without intellectual disability; and (2) determine the extent to which between-group differences in health behaviours/status may be attributable to differential exposure to social determinants of poorer health.

Study Design: Cross sectional survey.

Methods: Secondary analysis of confidentialized needs analysis data collected in three Primary Care Trusts in England on 46,023 households with young children.