%0 Journal Article
%T Changes in the self
%A Brendan Bunting
%A Edurne Garcia Iriarte
%A Fiona Keogh
%A Roy McConkey
%J Journal of Intellectual Disabilities
%@ 1744-6309
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1744629516674086
%X A natural experiment contrasted the self-rated well-being of people with intellectual disabilities (n = 75) and those with enduring mental health problems (n = 44) after they moved to new accommodation and support options, while others remained in congregated settings or living in the family home. Most support staff also provided well-being ratings. In personalized arrangements, personal well-being was significantly higher than in congregated settings; particularly for people with intellectual disability who had higher support needs compared to people with mental health problems. Moving to a group home also brought some improvement in the well-being ratings of people with intellectual disability but only for those with higher support needs. Such moves seemed to lead to a decline in well-being for those with mental health problems. There were marked discrepancies between ratings given by the person with those of staff. The well-being measure shows promise for use in further comparative and longitudinal studies
%K intellectual disability
%K mental health problems
%K well-being
%K personalization
%K resettlement
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1744629516674086