Psychiatrists and non-psychiatrists’ attitudes to psychotropic optimisation for people with intellectual disabilities and/or autism: cross-sectional comparison study
This is the first study to highlight important differences between psychiatrists and non-psychiatrists' attitudes to psychotropic optimisation despite respondents overall being broadly supportive of its need. A major finding is the hitherto unquantified concerns of patient ethnicity and its impact on psychotropic optimisation principles.
Authors
- Gill Gookey (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7137-2248)
- Paraskevi Triantafyllopoulou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0946-5088)
- Paul Bassett (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7830-4563)
- Rory Sheehan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4164-9661)
- Hassan Mahmood (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1830-4048)
- Samuel Tromans (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0783-285X)
- Indermeet Sawhney (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4203-9897)
- Laura Korb (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0084-1665)
- Tony Jamieson
- Danielle Adams (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7705-9540)
- Shoumitro Deb (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1300-8103)
- Rohit Shankar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1183-6933)
- Zayed Malak
Institutions
- Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (GB)
- University of Leicester (GB)
- Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust (GB)
- King's College London (GB)
- University of Kent (GB)
- Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- University of Warwick (GB)
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (GB)
- East Midlands Academic Health Science Network (GB)
- Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (GB)
- NHS England
- Imperial College London (GB)
- University of Plymouth (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BJPsych Open
- Published
- 2025-10-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2025.10875
- Primary Topic
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00