Abstract：
Screening tools can help with the identification of intellectual disability, but little is known about who uses them. This study analysed anonymous information from 2691 users of an evidence-based, online, intellectual disability screening questionnaire for children and adolescents (CAIDS-Q) to explore the characteristics of the users and of those being screened. The users were split almost equally between parents/family members (48.6%) and professionals (49.9%), with the majority (63.8%) of the latter group being health staff. Significant differences in the characteristics of the children being screened were found, according to whether the user was a parent/family member or a professional, with the overall pattern suggesting that professionals screened children with greater complexity of needs, but about whom less was known. The screened children had a range of areas of difficulties that are common to those with intellectual disability. Implications for practice are discussed.
摘要：
筛查工具可以帮助识别智力障碍，但对谁使用它们知之甚少。这项研究分析了2691名基于证据的用户的匿名信息，在线,儿童和青少年智力障碍筛查问卷（CAIDS-Q），以探索使用者和被筛查者的特征。用户在父母/家庭成员（48.6％）和专业人士（49.9％）之间几乎平均分配，后者中大多数（63.8％）是卫生人员。发现被筛查儿童的特征存在显著差异,根据用户是父母/家庭成员还是专业人士，总体模式表明，专业人员对需求更复杂的儿童进行筛查，但对谁知之甚少。被筛查的儿童有一系列的困难领域，这些困难是智障人士所共有的。讨论了对实践的影响。
