title: Families of children with mental retardation: comprehensive view from an epidemiologic perspective.
abstract: Data covering a 15-year period on the health, behavior, and functioning of a representative population of families of children with mental retardation and comparison children were used in cluster analysis to obtain relatively homogeneous groupings of families. Only a small minority of families of children with mental retardation did not cluster together with comparison families. More than a third functioned well and had a middle-class orientation; less than a third functioned poorly. A few clusters had ambiguous configurations, but most were easily understood and conformed generally to expectations in validation analyses.
authors.affiliation: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Koller
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Richardson
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Katz
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D010553:Personality Development; D012606:Scotland / Q000453:epidemiology; D012931:Social Environment; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors