Stakeholders’ perspectives on how to improve the support for persons with an intellectual disability and challenging behaviors: a concept mapping study

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Table 1 Characteristics participants

	Clients	Relatives	Direct support workers	Psychologists
Gender
Male	4	2	3	4
Female	5	3	4	5
Age	28.3 years (Range: 22–46)	63.8 years (Range: 43–74) (1 missing)	36.8 years (Range: 28–57)	43.6 years (Range: 28–65)
Years of experience	–	–	11.5 years (Range: 3.5–32)	20.1 years (Range: 5–45)
Years of experience in current job	–	–	6.4 years (Range: 2–20)	13.3 years (Range: 2.5–35)

Figure 1. Concept map clients.

Figure 2. Concept map direct support workers.

Figure 3. Concept map psychologists.

Table 2 Clusters and their average rating for each respondent group

Cluster number	Clients	Direct support workers	Psychologists
1	Acknowledgement (1.62)	Knowledge, skills, and attitude to provide professionally tailored care (2.00)	From person to person (2.06)
2	Showing sincere attention (1.67)	Personal competencies to connect to the client (2.34)	Coaching of direct support workers (2.58)
3	Know me and be clear (1.78)	Coaching and reflection (2.37)	Positioning as psychologist (2.71)
4	Be curious and help me grow (1.83)	Collaboration in providing tailored care (2.86)	Deepen the perspective of the client in his/her context (2.80)
5	Sensitivity (1.93)	Feeling supported and appreciated themselves (2.99)	Individual perspective (2.93)
6	Professionals with life experience (2.00)	Physical safe environment (3.17)	Recognition of the role of direct support workers (3.37)
7	Guidance and structure (2.04)	Involvement of clients with respect to their living environment (3.29)

Note. Rating on a five point Likert-scale (ranging from 1 = most important to 5 = least important); for the clients three point Likert-scale was used (ranging from 1 = most important to 3 = least important).