Implicit knowledge can be communicated more pro ciently with a formal, collaborative tool. Maeve Goodall, Dublin City University, Collins Ave Ext, Whitehall, Dublin 9, Ireland. Email: [email protected]. Irish intellectual disability population (Casey et al., 2020).

Nov 22, 2024 · Background: Individuals with profound intellectual disabilities are non-verbal and reliant on carers for pain recognition, assessment and management. Pain is a multifaceted and interconnected experience. Assessment tools designed specifically for this population are needed.

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Results: Six themes were identified: unconditional positive regard, honouring of relationship, creative best practice, pain through a competing lens, accurate assessment-an impossible task? Medicating pain-oversimplified and undervalued? Conclusion: Relationship is essential, in recognising pain and distress.

Nov 22, 2024 · Goodall M, Irving K, Nevin M (2023) The recognition, assessment and perceptions of pain in people with profound intellectual disabilities: A mixed methods systematic review. The Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities. 36(5): 940-950.

Nov 22, 2024 · People with profound intellectual disabilities often have idiosyncratic, non-verbal indicators of pain and distress (Chadwick et al., 2019), which may be missed or misinterpreted (Goodall et al., 2023).

Maeve Goodall 1 , Kate Irving 1 , Mary Nevin 1 Affiliation 1 School of Nursing, Psychotherapy & Community Health, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland.

Systematic review findings reveal that over 76.19% of health care professionals expressed challenges in recognising and assessing pain in the person with profound intellectual disabilities causing serious, painful conditions to go untreated (Millard & de Knegt, 2019).

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