Psychopathology in Young People with Mental Retardation

智力低下青少年的精神病理学

• 批准号: 6499900
• 负责人: BRUCE J TONGE
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: MONASH UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-08-20 至 2004-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6499900
• 关键词: Downs syndrome; Prader Willi syndrome; Williams syndrome; adolescence (12-20); antisocial personality; anxiety; autism; behavioral /social science research tag; child (0-11); clinical research; depression; developmental psychology; fragile X syndromes; human data; longitudinal human study; mental disorders; mental health epidemiology; mental retardation; pathologic process; psychometrics; social psychology

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Families caring for young people with mental retardation face major burdens of care if the young person also has emotional and behavioural problems. Serious mental health problems are 2-3 times more common in young people with mental retardation, which apart from the personal distress and loss opportunity it causes the child and family, is also a major cost to our community. This project is intended to assist young people and their careers by providing new information about the factors contributing to these mental health problems and how they develop over time. The project makes use of the existing internationally unique epidemiological longitudinal study (the Australian Child and Adolescent Development Study ACAD) which has followed a group of young people with mental retardation aged 4-18 for the last eight years, from childhood through adolescence as they move into young adult life. The ACAD study has collected an extensive range of biopsychosocial data on these young people and their families. This project will examine the unique database produced by the ACAD study using state-of-the-art statistical techniques in to order to elucidate the biopsychosocial risk and protective factors relating to the progression and development of mental health problems in this under researched and under serviced population. It is expected that the results of such analyses will directly contribute to the development of appropriate intervention and prevention programs.

描述（由申请人提供）：如果智力低下青少年也有情绪和行为问题，则照顾该青少年的家庭将面临重大的护理负担。严重的心理健康问题在患有智力低下的年轻人中常见2-3倍，这除了给孩子和家庭带来个人痛苦和失去机会之外，也是我们社区的主要成本。该项目旨在通过提供有关导致这些心理健康问题的因素及其随着时间的推移如何发展的新信息来帮助年轻人及其职业生涯。该项目利用了现有的国际独特的流行病学纵向研究（澳大利亚儿童和青少年发展研究ACAD），该研究在过去八年中跟踪了一群4-18岁智力低下的年轻人，从童年到青春期。进入年轻成人的生活。 ACAD 研究收集了有关这些年轻人及其家人的广泛的生物心理社会数据。该项目将使用最先进的统计技术检查 ACAD 研究生成的独特数据库，以阐明与心理健康问题的进展和发展相关的生物心理社会风险和保护因素。人口。预计此类分析的结果将直接有助于制定适当的干预和预防计划。