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Service support to people in Wales with severe intellectual disability and the most severe challenging behaviours: processes, outcomes and costs

Felce, David, Lowe, Kathy, Perry, J., Baxter, Helen, Jones, Edwin, Hallam, Angela, Beecham, Jennifer (1998) Service support to people in Wales with severe intellectual disability and the most severe challenging behaviours: processes, outcomes and costs. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 42 (5). pp. 390-408. ISSN 0964-2633. (doi:10.1046/j.1365-2788.1998.00153.x) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:17723)

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2788.1998.00153.x

Abstract

A survey of people with severe intellectual disability and the most severe challenging behaviour in Wales identified five adults living in family homes, 17 in new specialist community housing and 19 in traditional services. With the omission of two people from the latter group and with a restricted collection of data for people living in the family home, the present study explored service input, outcome and costs across the three setting types. Process and outcome indicators for the family home group, who received little service input, were better than those for the traditional service group, although less good than those for the community house group. The specialist community home model produced significant gains over the traditional services in virtually all areas. Across the residential data set as a whole, there was no association between staff:resident ratios and severity of disability or between costs and severity of disability. This was largely true of the service types separately. There was a relationship between costs and service quality. However, this association was underpinned by gross differences between community houses and traditional settings. Costs, processes and outcomes ceased to be related when the two residential types were considered separately. Although higher costs of new community services compared to traditional services may be set against improved outcomes, high costs within the former could not be related to benefit Outcome indicators were generally related to each other, suggesting that high quality in one sense was matched by high quality in other senses. Outcome was significantly associated with the ability of residents. Outcome indicators also tended to be related to observed staff performance, which was independent of resident ability. Therefore, outcome may be considered as dually determined by differences in resident ability and in what staff did.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1046/j.1365-2788.1998.00153.x
Uncontrolled keywords: challenging behaviour; service evaluation; severe disability
Subjects: L Education
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research > Personal Social Services Research Unit
Depositing User: R.F. Xu
Date Deposited: 29 Apr 2009 16:10 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:55 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/17723 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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