Longitudinal Analysis of Mental Health in Autistic University Students Across an Academic Year

BACKGROUND: Autistic people have worse mental health (MH) than non-autistic people. This proof-of-concept study explored feasibility of longitudinal research with autistic university students, focusing on their MH and coping styles across an academic year. METHODS: Twenty-two students took part at a...

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Autores principales: Scott, Matthew, Leppanen, Jenni, Allen, Melissa, Jarrold, Chris, Sedgewick, Felicity
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9264293/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35802290
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05560-9
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description BACKGROUND: Autistic people have worse mental health (MH) than non-autistic people. This proof-of-concept study explored feasibility of longitudinal research with autistic university students, focusing on their MH and coping styles across an academic year. METHODS: Twenty-two students took part at all timepoints. They completed four rounds of online MH questionnaires. RESULTS: Over 80% of students were retained. They started the year with high levels of all MH issues, which remained stable across the year. Network Change analysis showed the connections between MH and coping style changed over time. CONCLUSIONS: Autistic students are engaged participants who are likely to take part in longitudinal research. While MH levels were stable, it may be that coping styles are a useful target for intervention.
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spelling pubmed-92642932022-07-08 Longitudinal Analysis of Mental Health in Autistic University Students Across an Academic Year Scott, Matthew Leppanen, Jenni Allen, Melissa Jarrold, Chris Sedgewick, Felicity J Autism Dev Disord Original Paper BACKGROUND: Autistic people have worse mental health (MH) than non-autistic people. This proof-of-concept study explored feasibility of longitudinal research with autistic university students, focusing on their MH and coping styles across an academic year. METHODS: Twenty-two students took part at all timepoints. They completed four rounds of online MH questionnaires. RESULTS: Over 80% of students were retained. They started the year with high levels of all MH issues, which remained stable across the year. Network Change analysis showed the connections between MH and coping style changed over time. CONCLUSIONS: Autistic students are engaged participants who are likely to take part in longitudinal research. While MH levels were stable, it may be that coping styles are a useful target for intervention. Springer US 2022-07-08 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9264293/ /pubmed/35802290 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05560-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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