Psychiatric morbidity and intellectual disability: a Western Australian record linkage study

This study represents a population-based approach to the study of co-occurring intellectual disability and psychiatric illness. The study has linked two population-based registers maintained in separate administrative health jurisdictions in Western Australia, namely the Mental Health Information System and the Intellectual Disability Register, in order to build a research database for the study of co-occurring disorders. The aims of this study are:

To estimate the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among persons with intellectual disability and, conversely, the prevalence of intellectual disability among persons with a psychiatric disorder
To describe the disability and service utilisation profile of persons with a dual diagnosis
To examine, in particular, schizophrenia and co-occurring intellectual disability

Contact

Dr Vera Morgan +61 8 9224 0235
Professor Assen Jablensky +61 8 9347 6416