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The mental health of young children with intellectual disabilities or borderline intellectual functioning.

Eric Emerson, Stewart Einfeld, and Roger J Stancliffe

Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 45(5):579-87 (2010) PMID 19618095

To determine within a nationally representative sample of young Australian children: (1) the association amongst intellectual disability, borderline intellectual functioning and the prevalence of possible mental health problems; (2) the association amongst intellectual disability, borderline intellectual functioning and exposure to social disadvantage; (3) the extent to which any between-group differences in the relative risk of possible mental health problems may be attributable to differences in exposure to disadvantageous social circumstances.

DOI: 10.1007/s00127-009-0100-y
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