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The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic by persons with ASD: Social aspects

While causing a variety of social restrictions, the COVID-19 pandemic has also precipitated the digitalisation of public services and official procedures, reducing many, until recently necessary, immediate social interactions. This study has been conducted to investigate their perception of the COVI...

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Autores principales: Błeszyński, Jacek, Rumińska, Aleksandra, Hamerlińska, Agnieszka, Stefańska-Klar, Renata, Warszawa, Agnieszka
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9202849/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35709250
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267123
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author Błeszyński, Jacek
Rumińska, Aleksandra
Hamerlińska, Agnieszka
Stefańska-Klar, Renata
Warszawa, Agnieszka
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description While causing a variety of social restrictions, the COVID-19 pandemic has also precipitated the digitalisation of public services and official procedures, reducing many, until recently necessary, immediate social interactions. This study has been conducted to investigate their perception of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on their current and future social interactions. To this end, semi-structured narrative interviews were conducted. Ten adults on the autism spectrum participated in the study. The phenomenological analysis of the narratives focused on categories related to the social functioning of the study participants. The interpretation of the narratives has shown that autistic people can experience a sense of loss due to the lack of direct contact. On the other hand, we also talked to the participants who expressed their satisfaction with the situation of obligatory social distance. The respondents also discussed the subject of changing the form of interaction in some areas of public life to one that is more adjusted to the needs of people with their condition. The study concludes with a suggestion that autistic people might benefit from technological progress in institutions and the availability of the option to prefer online contact for interactions that are not strictly necessary.
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spelling pubmed-92028492022-06-17 The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic by persons with ASD: Social aspects Błeszyński, Jacek Rumińska, Aleksandra Hamerlińska, Agnieszka Stefańska-Klar, Renata Warszawa, Agnieszka PLoS One Research Article While causing a variety of social restrictions, the COVID-19 pandemic has also precipitated the digitalisation of public services and official procedures, reducing many, until recently necessary, immediate social interactions. This study has been conducted to investigate their perception of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on their current and future social interactions. To this end, semi-structured narrative interviews were conducted. Ten adults on the autism spectrum participated in the study. The phenomenological analysis of the narratives focused on categories related to the social functioning of the study participants. The interpretation of the narratives has shown that autistic people can experience a sense of loss due to the lack of direct contact. On the other hand, we also talked to the participants who expressed their satisfaction with the situation of obligatory social distance. The respondents also discussed the subject of changing the form of interaction in some areas of public life to one that is more adjusted to the needs of people with their condition. The study concludes with a suggestion that autistic people might benefit from technological progress in institutions and the availability of the option to prefer online contact for interactions that are not strictly necessary. Public Library of Science 2022-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9202849/ /pubmed/35709250 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267123 Text en © 2022 Błeszyński et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267123
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