Summary of findings 2. Community‐based specialist behaviour therapy compared to standard treatment for persons with an intellectual disability.
| Community‐based specialist behaviour therapy compared to standard treatment for persons with an intellectual disability | |||
| Patient or population: persons with an intellectual disability Setting: United Kingdom Intervention: community‐based specialist behaviour therapy Comparison: standard treatment | |||
| Outcomes | No. of participants (studies) | Certainty of the evidence (GRADE) | Impact |
| Behavioural problems | 63 (1 RCT) | ⊕⊕⊝⊝ low 1 2 3 | Community‐based specialist behaviour therapy may slightly decrease behavioural problems. |
| Costs | 63 (1 RCT) | ⊕⊕⊝⊝ low 1 2 | Community‐based specialist behaviour therapy may make little or no difference to costs. |
| GRADE Working Group grades of evidence High certainty: We are very confident that the true effect lies close to that of the estimate of the effect Moderate certainty: We are moderately confident in the effect estimate: The true effect is likely to be close to the estimate of the effect, but there is a possibility that it is substantially different Low certainty: Our confidence in the effect estimate is limited: The true effect may be substantially different from the estimate of the effect Very low certainty: We have very little confidence in the effect estimate: The true effect is likely to be substantially different from the estimate of effect | |||
1 Downgraded for risk of bias as unclear protection against contamination and selective reporting; subjective main outcome.
2 Downgraded for imprecision based on sample size and wide confidence intervals.
3 Downgraded for indirectness as main outcome was surrogate.