Effectiveness of the ‘Who’s Challenging Who’ support staff training intervention to improve attitudes and empathy towards adults with intellectual disability and challenging behaviours: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial

Effectiveness of the ‘Who’s Challenging Who’ support staff training intervention to improve attitudes and empathy towards adults with intellectual disability and challenging behaviours: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial

Abstract Background Findings suggest approximately one in six people with intellectual disability engage in ‘challenging behaviours’, which include aggression towards others/property and self-injurious actions. In residential settings, actions of staff members can make challenging behaviours more li...

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Main Authors: Elizabeth Randell, Richard P. Hastings, Rachel McNamara, Roseanna Knight, David Gillespie, Zachary Taylor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-10-01
Series:Trials
Subjects:
Attitudes
Challenging behaviour
Intellectual disability
Co-trainers
Contact hypothesis
Empathy
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13063-017-2175-1

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