Health issues and quality of life in women with intellectual disability

By: Kyrkou, M.
Series: Journal of Intellectual Disability Research 49 (10) 2005: 770-772.Publisher: 2005Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume Subject(s): HEALTH ISSUES | MENSTRUATION | QUESTIONNAIRES | DOWN SYNDROME | ASPERGER SYNDROME | AUTISMSummary: Notes that although there is anecdotal evidence of an increase in both period pain and premenstrual syndrome (PMS) in women with intellectual disabilities, there are only brief mentions of it in the literature. Distributed questionnaires to parents of women with Down syndrome (DS) or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), resulting in 24 respondents from Australia and New Zealand. Sought to ascertain how period pain and PMS presents in women with intellectual disabilities. Analyzed the results by disability group, and communication ability. Found women with DS were more often able to state that they had pain, or point to the location of the pain than women with either autism or Asperger Syndrome (AS). Additionally, women with DS or ASD appeared to have a higher rate of period pain than women in the general population, but the presence of pain more often had to be deduced from behavioural changes.
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Notes that although there is anecdotal evidence of an increase in both period pain and premenstrual syndrome (PMS) in women with intellectual disabilities, there are only brief mentions of it in the literature. Distributed questionnaires to parents of women with Down syndrome (DS) or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), resulting in 24 respondents from Australia and New Zealand. Sought to ascertain how period pain and PMS presents in women with intellectual disabilities. Analyzed the results by disability group, and communication ability. Found women with DS were more often able to state that they had pain, or point to the location of the pain than women with either autism or Asperger Syndrome (AS). Additionally, women with DS or ASD appeared to have a higher rate of period pain than women in the general population, but the presence of pain more often had to be deduced from behavioural changes.

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