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Professor Shoumitro (Shoumi) Deb

Faculty of Medicine, Department of Brain Sciences

Visiting Professor
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 3313 4161s.deb CV

 
 
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Commonwealth BuildingHammersmith Campus

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Publications

Citation

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@article{Deb:2023:10.1111/jar.13083,
author = {Deb, SS and Limbu, B and Nancarrow, T and Gerrard, D and Shankar, R},
doi = {10.1111/jar.13083},
journal = {Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities},
pages = {594--603},
title = {The UK psychiatrists' experience of rationalising antipsychotics in adults with intellectual disabilities: a qualitative data analysis of free-text questionnaire responses},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jar.13083},
volume = {36},
year = {2023}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - BackgroundOverprescribing of off-licence psychotropic medications, particularly antipsychotics, for challenging behaviours in people with intellectual disabilities without a psychiatric disorder is a significant public health concern. In the United Kingdom, the National Health Service England launched an initiative in 2016, ‘STopping Over-Medication of People with learning disabilities, autism or both (STOMP)’, to address this concern. STOMP is supposed to encourage psychiatrists in the United Kingdom and elsewhere to rationalise psychotropic medication use in people with intellectual disabilities. The current study aims to gather UK psychiatrists' views and experience of implementing the STOMP initiative.MethodsAn online questionnaire was sent to all UK psychiatrists working in the field of intellectual disabilities (estimated 225). Two open-ended questions allowed participants to write comments in response to these questions in the free text boxes. One question asked about the challenges psychiatrists faced locally to implement STOMP, and the other asked for examples of successes and positive experiences from the process. The free text data were analysed using a qualitative method with the help of the NVivo 12 plus software.ResultsEighty-eight (estimated 39%) psychiatrists returned the completed questionnaire. The qualitative analysis of free-text data has shown variation within services in the experience and views of the psychiatrists. In areas with good support for STOMP implementation provided through adequate resources, psychiatrists reported satisfaction in the process with successful antipsychotic rationalisation, better local multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working, and increased awareness of STOMP issues among the stakeholders such as people with intellectual disabilities and their caregivers and multidisciplinary teams, and improved quality of life caused by reduced medication-related adverse events in people with intellectual disabilities
AU  - Deb,SS
AU  - Limbu,B
AU  - Nancarrow,T
AU  - Gerrard,D
AU  - Shankar,R
DO  - 10.1111/jar.13083
EP  - 603
PY  - 2023///
SN  - 1360-2322
SP  - 594
TI  - The UK psychiatrists' experience of rationalising antipsychotics in adults with intellectual disabilities: a qualitative data analysis of free-text questionnaire responses
T2  - Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jar.13083
UR  - https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000935056200001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jar.13083
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/103069
VL  - 36
ER  -
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