%0 Journal Article
%T The characteristics of users of an online screening tool for children and adolescents with intellectual disability and of those being screened.
%A McKenzie K
%A Murray KR
%A Thompson J
%A Horridge K
%A Greenwell K
%A Murray AL
%J J Intellect Disabil
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%D 2024 Aug 8
%M 39118221
%F 1.533
%R 10.1177/17446295241272698
%X 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.