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The future care plans of older adults with learning disabilities living at home with family carers (1997)
Journal Article
Prosser, H. (1997). The future care plans of older adults with learning disabilities living at home with family carers. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 10(1), 15-32. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-3148.1997.tb00002.x

This article describes the future residential and financial provision planned for a group of people with intellectual disability over the age of 40 years living with relatives in the family home and investigates the factors which influence carers' de... Read More about The future care plans of older adults with learning disabilities living at home with family carers.

Patients' perceptions of pre-operative preparation for day surgery (1997)
Journal Article
Mitchell, M. (1997). Patients' perceptions of pre-operative preparation for day surgery. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 26(2), 356-363. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2648.1997.1997026356.x

While the quality of medical intervention associated with day surgery has greatly improved, the position of psychological preparation has remained virtually unchanged. Recent evidence, however, has suggested that anxiety levels can be significantly r... Read More about Patients' perceptions of pre-operative preparation for day surgery.

Defining gastrocnemius length in ambulant children (1997)
Journal Article
Eames, N., Baker, R., & Cosgrove, A. (1997). Defining gastrocnemius length in ambulant children. Gait & Posture, 6(1), 9-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0966-6362%2896%2901105-8

This paper describes a system to calculate gastrocnemius muscle length from three dimensional kinematic gait data and anthropometric measurements of children taken from MRI scans. As well as describing the simple model that may be applied to existing... Read More about Defining gastrocnemius length in ambulant children.

Reliability of the ICD-10 version of the Psychiatric Assessment Schedule for Adults with Developmental Disability (PAS-ADD) (1997)
Journal Article
Costell, H., Moss, S., Prosser, H., & Hatton, C. (1997). Reliability of the ICD-10 version of the Psychiatric Assessment Schedule for Adults with Developmental Disability (PAS-ADD). Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 32(6), 339-343. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00805439

The Psychiatric Assessment Schedule for Adults with Developmental Disability (PAS-ADD) is a semi-structured clinical interview designed for use with respondents who have learning disability. The first version was based on the Present State Examinatio... Read More about Reliability of the ICD-10 version of the Psychiatric Assessment Schedule for Adults with Developmental Disability (PAS-ADD).

Validity of the PAS-ADD for detecting psychiatric symptoms in adults with learning disability (1997)
Journal Article
Moss, S., Ibbotson, B., Prosser, H., & Goldberg, D. (1997). Validity of the PAS-ADD for detecting psychiatric symptoms in adults with learning disability. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 6(32), 344-354. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00805440

The Psychiatric Assessment Schedule for Adults with Developmental Disability (PAS-ADD) is a semi-structured interview for use with respondents who have learning disability and for key informants. This report investigates the ability of the instrument... Read More about Validity of the PAS-ADD for detecting psychiatric symptoms in adults with learning disability.