Mental Wellbeing of Family Members of Autistic Adults

Family members are often the primary caregiver for autistic adults and this responsibility may impact on the carer’s wellbeing and quality of life. 109 family members of autistic adults completed an online survey assessing their wellbeing relating to their caring role for their autistic relative. Fa...

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Autores principales: Herrema, Renske, Garland, Deborah, Osborne, Malcolm, Freeston, Mark, Honey, Emma, Rodgers, Jacqui
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2017
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Original Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5633644/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28861652
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-017-3269-z
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Garland, Deborah
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Rodgers, Jacqui
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description Family members are often the primary caregiver for autistic adults and this responsibility may impact on the carer’s wellbeing and quality of life. 109 family members of autistic adults completed an online survey assessing their wellbeing relating to their caring role for their autistic relative. Family members who were supporting an autistic relative with co-occurring mental health difficulties and who they reported as unprepared for the future, self-reported higher levels of worry, depression, anxiety and stress, and poorer quality of life. These findings emphasise the importance of support for family members of autistic adults, whether through external services to support their relative or individual mental health support for the carer.
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spelling pubmed-56336442017-10-23 Mental Wellbeing of Family Members of Autistic Adults Herrema, Renske Garland, Deborah Osborne, Malcolm Freeston, Mark Honey, Emma Rodgers, Jacqui J Autism Dev Disord Original Paper Family members are often the primary caregiver for autistic adults and this responsibility may impact on the carer’s wellbeing and quality of life. 109 family members of autistic adults completed an online survey assessing their wellbeing relating to their caring role for their autistic relative. Family members who were supporting an autistic relative with co-occurring mental health difficulties and who they reported as unprepared for the future, self-reported higher levels of worry, depression, anxiety and stress, and poorer quality of life. These findings emphasise the importance of support for family members of autistic adults, whether through external services to support their relative or individual mental health support for the carer. Springer US 2017-08-31 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5633644/ /pubmed/28861652 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-017-3269-z Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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