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Did I Take My Medication Today? Understanding Medication Self-Management for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities Through Participatory Research (2025)
Journal Article
Spassiani, N., Higgins, A., Tait, S., Hume, A., Abdulla, S., & Paterson, R. (2025). Did I Take My Medication Today? Understanding Medication Self-Management for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities Through Participatory Research. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 38(3), Article e70059. https://doi.org/10.1111/jar.70059

Background: There is little research that has examined what support strategies are effective to help adults with intellectual disabilities take their prescribed medication correctly. The aim of the study was to gain an understanding of the barriers a... Read More about Did I Take My Medication Today? Understanding Medication Self-Management for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities Through Participatory Research.

Do practice learning experiences influence professional identity development & post-registration employment decisions for student nurses? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abdulla, S., McLuckie, C., & Machin, A. (2024, August). Do practice learning experiences influence professional identity development & post-registration employment decisions for student nurses?. Poster presented at International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Chicago

How do student and early career learning disability nurses develop their sense of professional identity and belonging within practice environments, and how can this influence post-registration employment. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abdulla, S., McLuckie, C., & Machin, A. (2024, April). How do student and early career learning disability nurses develop their sense of professional identity and belonging within practice environments, and how can this influence post-registration employment. Presented at RCN Education Conference 2024, York

Supporting the social inclusion of children and young adults with IDD and psychiatric comorbidities: Autobiographical narratives of practitioners and academics from Europe (2023)
Journal Article
Boyle, A., Abdulla, S., Odrowąż-Coates, A., Tah, J., Kiss, J., Grung, R. M., Ahlström, M., & Marsh, L. (2023). Supporting the social inclusion of children and young adults with IDD and psychiatric comorbidities: Autobiographical narratives of practitioners and academics from Europe. Society Register, 7(2), 33-48. https://doi.org/10.14746/sr.2023.7.2.03

The article provides a reflection on the social inclusion of children and young people with IDD and associated psychiatric comorbidity through the eyes of practitioners and academics from Norway, Scotland, Sweden, and Romania. Using an autoethnograph... Read More about Supporting the social inclusion of children and young adults with IDD and psychiatric comorbidities: Autobiographical narratives of practitioners and academics from Europe.

Understanding the barriers experienced by adults with learning disabilities when accessing fitness centres (2023)
Journal Article
Spassiani, N. A., Abdulla, S., Hiddleston, A., Lynch, K., & Baigrie, L. (2023). Understanding the barriers experienced by adults with learning disabilities when accessing fitness centres. Learning Disability Practice, 26(6), 23-32. https://doi.org/10.7748/ldp.2023.e2216

Background
Many people with learning disabilities are unable to access fitness centres due to these facilities often being inaccessible and non-inclusive.

Aim
To examine the barriers and support experienced by adults with learning disabilities... Read More about Understanding the barriers experienced by adults with learning disabilities when accessing fitness centres.

Intellectual disability nursing for people with profound intellectual disabilities and complex needs (2023)
Book Chapter
Walbright, C., Walden, S., Abdulla, S., & Ryan, R. (2023). Intellectual disability nursing for people with profound intellectual disabilities and complex needs. In K. Mafuba (Ed.), Learning and Intellectual Disability Nursing Practice. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003296461-6

People with profound intellectual disabilities and complex needs are recognised as requiring intensive and extensive support needs in nearly all aspects of living across the lifespan. Historically, social exclusion, and simultaneously poorer experien... Read More about Intellectual disability nursing for people with profound intellectual disabilities and complex needs.

Experiences of healthcare professionals in cancer assessment and treatment for people with learning disabilities: a literature review (2021)
Journal Article
Abdulla, S., & Spassiani, N. (2021). Experiences of healthcare professionals in cancer assessment and treatment for people with learning disabilities: a literature review. Cancer Nursing Practice, https://doi.org/10.7748/cnp.2021.e1654

Cancer is a leading underlying cause of death among people with learning disabilities, who are less likely to receive screening tests for the disease than those without learning disabilities. This article details a literature review that was undertak... Read More about Experiences of healthcare professionals in cancer assessment and treatment for people with learning disabilities: a literature review.

Social inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities in seven European countries (2020)
Journal Article
Magnus Grung, R., Brown, M., Abdulla, S., Kiss, J.-F., Orţan, F., Odrowaz-Coates, A., Surfraz, M., Tah, J., & Marsh, L. (2021). Social inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities in seven European countries. Learning Disability Practice, 24(1), 19-28. https://doi.org/10.7748/ldp.2020.e2120

Policies for people with disabilities, and specifically those with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), have undergone significant changes during the past three decades. Many people with IDD experience social exclusion, which has signif... Read More about Social inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities in seven European countries.

Supporting people with learning disabilities who identify as LGBT to express their sexual and gender identities (2020)
Journal Article
Marie Robinson, Z., Marsden, D., Abdulla, S., & Dowling, F. (2020). Supporting people with learning disabilities who identify as LGBT to express their sexual and gender identities. Learning Disability Practice, 23(6), 24-31. https://doi.org/10.7748/ldp.2020.e2094

People with learning disabilities experience many barriers that prevent them from expressing their sexuality and developing loving and sexual relationships, particularly if they identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT). This article explor... Read More about Supporting people with learning disabilities who identify as LGBT to express their sexual and gender identities.

The Twenty- First Century: Networking for Success (2015)
Book Chapter
Abdulla, S., Marsden, D., Wilson, S., & Parker, M. (2015). The Twenty- First Century: Networking for Success. In Learning Disability Nursing at a Glance (155-157). Wiley Blackwell

Nursing education: the disseminated model: Nicola Braid and Samuel Abdulla review results of a pilot project in three Scottish universities that was intended to increase the number of nurses in remote and rural areas (2013)
Journal Article
Braid, N., & Abdulla, S. (2013). Nursing education: the disseminated model: Nicola Braid and Samuel Abdulla review results of a pilot project in three Scottish universities that was intended to increase the number of nurses in remote and rural areas. Learning Disability Practice, 16(2), 16-20. https://doi.org/10.7748/ldp2013.03.16.2.16.e693

Nicola Braid and Samuel Abdulla review results of a pilot project in three Scottish universities that was intended to increase the number of nurses in remote and rural areas

In Scotland, learning disability nursing education is provided by institu... Read More about Nursing education: the disseminated model: Nicola Braid and Samuel Abdulla review results of a pilot project in three Scottish universities that was intended to increase the number of nurses in remote and rural areas.

Did I Take My Medication Today? Understanding Medicine Adherence for Adults with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities Through Participatory Research
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Paterson, R., Adbulla, S., Spassiani, N., & Higgins, A. (2024, August). Did I Take My Medication Today? Understanding Medicine Adherence for Adults with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities Through Participatory Research. Poster presented at IASSIDD, 17th World Congress: Reimagining Connections, Chicago, USA

Background: Medicine non-adherence has a significant impact on quality of life, mortality, and morbidity. In 2003, the World Health Organisation stated that medicines optimization may have a greater impact on chronic disease management compared to an... Read More about Did I Take My Medication Today? Understanding Medicine Adherence for Adults with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities Through Participatory Research.