Co-morbid psychiatric conditions in children with intellectual disability

Pages: 1258-1264
Sunita Purty (Department of Clinical Psychology, PGIBAMS, Raipur, Chhattisgarhi)
Amool R. Singh (Department of Clinical Psychology, RINPAS, Ranchi, Jharkhand)

Intellectual disability is a disability characterized by significant limitations both in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior, which covers a range of everyday social and practical skills. Intellectual disability should be considered a deviation in the development that increases the risk for psychopathology. For example, people with Intellectual Disability often have comorbid problems such as stereotype and challenging behaviour, anxiety and depression. The present study attempted to investigate the co-morbid psychiatric conditions in children with intellectual disability. Sample of the study consists of 120 children with intellectual disability, taken by using purposive sampling technique. Developmental Psychopathology Checklist (DPCL) (Kapur et al., 2011) was used to assess the co-morbid psychiatric conditions in children with Intellectual Disability, after fulfilling the inclusion criteria. This was a cross sectional study conducted at RINPAS. Result showed that developmental problem like speech, expressive language, receptive language, inability to relate people and inability to play with other children, sexual problem were mostly reported. Psychiatric conditions like attention deficit hyperactive disorder, conduct disorder were more reported.