The Association Between Child and Family Characteristics and the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Caregivers of Children with Autism in Mid-Childhood

We examined predictors of mental health difficulties and wellbeing in caregivers of children with autism in the Pre-school Autism Communication Trial cohort in middle childhood (N = 104). Child’s intellectual disability, daily living skills impairment, elevated emotional and behavioural difficulties...

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Autores principales: Salomone, Erica, Leadbitter, Kathy, Aldred, Catherine, Barrett, Barbara, Byford, Sarah, Charman, Tony, Howlin, Patricia, Green, Jonathan, Le Couteur, Ann, McConachie, Helen, Parr, Jeremy R., Pickles, Andrew, Slonims, Vicky
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2017
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S.I. : Parenting Children with ASD
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5861164/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29177606
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-017-3392-x
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author Salomone, Erica
Leadbitter, Kathy
Aldred, Catherine
Barrett, Barbara
Byford, Sarah
Charman, Tony
Howlin, Patricia
Green, Jonathan
Le Couteur, Ann
McConachie, Helen
Parr, Jeremy R.
Pickles, Andrew
Slonims, Vicky
author_facet Salomone, Erica
Leadbitter, Kathy
Aldred, Catherine
Barrett, Barbara
Byford, Sarah
Charman, Tony
Howlin, Patricia
Green, Jonathan
Le Couteur, Ann
McConachie, Helen
Parr, Jeremy R.
Pickles, Andrew
Slonims, Vicky
author_sort Salomone, Erica
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description We examined predictors of mental health difficulties and wellbeing in caregivers of children with autism in the Pre-school Autism Communication Trial cohort in middle childhood (N = 104). Child’s intellectual disability, daily living skills impairment, elevated emotional and behavioural difficulties, high educational level of caregiver and household income below the median significantly predicted caregivers’ mental health difficulties, but autism severity, child communication skills and family circumstances did not. Lower caregiver mental wellbeing was predicted by elevated child emotional and behavioural difficulties. The need to support the mental health and wellbeing of caregivers of children with autism is discussed in light of the results.
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spelling pubmed-58611642018-03-22 The Association Between Child and Family Characteristics and the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Caregivers of Children with Autism in Mid-Childhood Salomone, Erica Leadbitter, Kathy Aldred, Catherine Barrett, Barbara Byford, Sarah Charman, Tony Howlin, Patricia Green, Jonathan Le Couteur, Ann McConachie, Helen Parr, Jeremy R. Pickles, Andrew Slonims, Vicky J Autism Dev Disord S.I. : Parenting Children with ASD We examined predictors of mental health difficulties and wellbeing in caregivers of children with autism in the Pre-school Autism Communication Trial cohort in middle childhood (N = 104). Child’s intellectual disability, daily living skills impairment, elevated emotional and behavioural difficulties, high educational level of caregiver and household income below the median significantly predicted caregivers’ mental health difficulties, but autism severity, child communication skills and family circumstances did not. Lower caregiver mental wellbeing was predicted by elevated child emotional and behavioural difficulties. The need to support the mental health and wellbeing of caregivers of children with autism is discussed in light of the results. Springer US 2017-11-25 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5861164/ /pubmed/29177606 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-017-3392-x 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.
spellingShingle S.I. : Parenting Children with ASD
Salomone, Erica
Leadbitter, Kathy
Aldred, Catherine
Barrett, Barbara
Byford, Sarah
Charman, Tony
Howlin, Patricia
Green, Jonathan
Le Couteur, Ann
McConachie, Helen
Parr, Jeremy R.
Pickles, Andrew
Slonims, Vicky
The Association Between Child and Family Characteristics and the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Caregivers of Children with Autism in Mid-Childhood
title The Association Between Child and Family Characteristics and the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Caregivers of Children with Autism in Mid-Childhood
title_full The Association Between Child and Family Characteristics and the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Caregivers of Children with Autism in Mid-Childhood
title_fullStr The Association Between Child and Family Characteristics and the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Caregivers of Children with Autism in Mid-Childhood
title_full_unstemmed The Association Between Child and Family Characteristics and the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Caregivers of Children with Autism in Mid-Childhood
title_short The Association Between Child and Family Characteristics and the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Caregivers of Children with Autism in Mid-Childhood
title_sort association between child and family characteristics and the mental health and wellbeing of caregivers of children with autism in mid-childhood
topic S.I. : Parenting Children with ASD
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5861164/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29177606
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-017-3392-x
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