Restrictive Intervention Data System cohort follow-up study

This project investigated the prevalence of persistent restraint and its predictors among individuals with a disability accessing residential services in Victoria. Taken together the results suggest  that people who are administered antipsychotic medications or who have autism or difficulty communicating to others are at greater risk of being restrained or secluded in the long term and staff report that positive behaviour support is reducing the number of people subjected to restrictive interventions.

Professor Ben Richardson
Senior Practitioner - Disability
Tuesday 31st October, 2017

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