Intellectual disability and patient activation after release from prison: a prospective cohort study

JT Young; C Cumming; K van Dooren; NG Lennox; R Alati; MJ Spittal; L Brophy; DB Preen; SA Kinner

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Intellectual disability and patient activation after release from prison: a prospective cohort study

JT Young, C Cumming, K van Dooren, NG Lennox, R Alati, MJ Spittal, L Brophy, DB Preen, SA Kinner

Journal of Intellectual Disability Research | WILEY | Published : 2017

DOI: 10.1111/jir.12349

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Abstract

Background: Intellectual disability and patient activation may be important drivers of inequities in health service access and health outcomes for people with intellectual disability transitioning from prison to the community. We assessed the association between intellectual disability and patient activation after prison release and examined whether this association varied, depending on whether intellectual disability was identified prior to prison release. Methods: Overall, 936 prisoners were screened for intellectual disability by using the Hayes Ability Screening Index and completed the Patient Activation Measure (PAM) within 6 weeks of prison release and again at 1, 3 and 6 months post-r..

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Funding Acknowledgements

The Passports study was funded by National Health and Medical Research Council NHMRC) Strategic Award No. 409966 and NHMRC Project Grant No. 1002463. Stuart Kinner is supported by NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship No. 1078168. The authors would like to thank the members of the consumer and community advisory groups established for the Passports project, Queensland Corrective Services for assistance with project design and implementation and both Centrelink and Queensland Probation and Parole Office for assistance with tracing. The authors thank Professor James Ogloff and Dr Dennis Petrie for their valuable contributions to this manuscript. The authors would like to acknowledge the Passports project team's commitment to a very challenging project and the late Professor Konrad Jamrozik for his pivotal role in conceiving and designing the Passports study. The authors also wish to acknowledge the Passports study participants for sharing their stories with us. The views expressed herein are solely those of the authors and in no way reflect the views or policies of Queensland Corrective Services.