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Medicine prescribed to children and young people with learning disabilities and children and young people with autism

 

This project looks at the medicine given to children and young people with learning disabilities and with autism.

What we are doing

We want to know if children and young people with learning disabilities and with autism are given more antipsychotics or more anti-depressants than other children.

We will look at the health problems children with learning disabilities and children with autism who take psychotropic medicines have.

How we will do it

We will take information from Scotland's pupil census and from prescription records for the years 2009 - 2013.

We will compare the prescriptions between children and young people with learning disabilities (or autism) to those without learning disabilities (or autism).

What we will do next

We will write a report and share the information that we find.