Populations and settings Blog Posts

• Video-based contact programme improves support staff’s interactions with people with learning disabilities

  27 Jun 2011

  • John Northfield

  
• Mental disorder in children and adolescents with learning disabilities between 30 and 50%

  24 Jun 2011

  • John Northfield

  
• Read code searches may result in under-detection in primary care registers of patients with learning disabilities

  22 Jun 2011

  • John Northfield

  
• Invisible addicts: new report highlights drug and alcohol misuse among older people

  22 Jun 2011

  • Andre Tomlin

  
• Systematic review suggests active support does not yet meet criteria for evidence-based practice

  21 Jun 2011

  • John Northfield

  
• US study finds significantly high prevalence of diabetes in adults with learning disabilities

  20 Jun 2011

  • John Northfield

  
• Survey of teenage alcohol consumption: levels, patterns and influences

  17 Jun 2011

  • Andre Tomlin

  
• More accessible information needed to improve uptake of mammography by women with learning disabilities

  17 Jun 2011

  • John Northfield

  
• Evidence on benefits of physical activity for people with learning disabilities yet to be translated into practice

  16 Jun 2011

  • John Northfield

  
• Barriers to good management of depression in primary care: the views of GPs and nurses

  14 Jun 2011

  • Andre Tomlin