Analysing Impact of Lockdown on Children with Intellectual Disability

  • Research type

    Research Study

  • Full title

    Analysing the Impact of Lockdown and School Closures During the Covid-19 Pandemic on Children with Intellectual Disability

  • IRAS ID

    284032

  • Contact name

    Amy Blake

  • Contact email

    Amy.Blake@Covwarkpt.nhs.uk

  • Sponsor organisation

    Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS trust

  • Duration of Study in the UK

    0 years, 1 months, 16 days

  • Research summary

    We have noted that although many children with Intellectual Disability have struggled, some appear to have experienced an improvement in their mental state and behavioural presentation coinciding with the lockdown and school closures resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic. We intend to explore further the experiences of children with Intellectual Disabilities and their families through conducting a survey amongst parents and carers of children open to the local Child and Adolescent Learning Disability Service. The cohort will be selected from the children open to the Child and Adolescent Learning Disability Service within Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust. All children will have diagnoses of Intellectual Disability and will reside within the Trust boundary.

  • REC name

    West Midlands - South Birmingham Research Ethics Committee

  • REC reference

    20/WM/0230

  • Date of REC Opinion

    21 Sep 2020

  • REC opinion

    Further Information Favourable Opinion