@article{ref1,
title="Self-injury in people with intellectual disability and epilepsy: A matched controlled study",
journal="Seizure",
year="2012",
author="Serafino, Buono and Fabio, Scannella and Bernadette, Palmigiano Maria and Maurizio, Elia and Mike, Kerr and Santo, Di Nuovo",
volume="21",
number="3",
pages="160-164",
abstract="We aimed to identify the presence of self-injurious behavior in a sample of 158 people with intellectual disability and epilepsy as compared with a control sample consisting of 195 people with intellectual disability without epilepsy. The Italian Scale for the Assessment of self-injurious behaviors was used to describe self-injurious behavior in both groups. The groups were matched for ID degree: mild/moderate (20 and 20 respectively), severe/profound (45 in both samples) and unknown (4 in both samples). Seventy-four percent of the first sample were diagnosed with symptomatic partial epilepsy. The prevalence of self-injurious behaviors was 44% in the group with intellectual disability and epilepsy and 46.5% of the group with intellectual disability without epilepsy (difference not significant). The areas most affected by self-injurious behaviors in both samples were the hands, the mouth and the head. The most frequent types of self-injurious behaviors were self-biting, self-hitting with hands and with objects. Self-injurious behavior is frequently observed in individuals with epilepsy and intellectual disability. Our study does not suggest that the presence of epilepsy is a risk factor for self-injurious behavior in this patient group.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1059-1311",
doi="10.1016/j.seizure.2011.10.008",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.seizure.2011.10.008"
}