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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on families living with autism: An online survey
BACKGROUND: The current SARS-CoV-2 global pandemic presents a great challenge for governments, health care professionals and the general population. Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) might be especially vulnerable to restrictions imposed by the crisis. AIM: The objective of the study w...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9271458/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35908370 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2022.104307 |
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author | Isensee, Corinna Schmid, Benjamin Marschik, Peter B. Zhang, Dajie Poustka, Luise |
author_facet | Isensee, Corinna Schmid, Benjamin Marschik, Peter B. Zhang, Dajie Poustka, Luise |
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description | BACKGROUND: The current SARS-CoV-2 global pandemic presents a great challenge for governments, health care professionals and the general population. Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) might be especially vulnerable to restrictions imposed by the crisis. AIM: The objective of the study was to examine the impact of the SARSCoV- 2 pandemic on children with ASD and their families. METHODS AND PROCEDURES: We conducted an online survey two months after the beginning of lock-down (18th of May to 5th of July 2020) in Germany and Austria. We investigated behavioral and emotional changes of children related to the lock-down alongside parental stress and intrafamilial burden OUTCOME AND RESULTS: Of the 216 participating families with an autistic child (mean age: 12.23 years), nearly 50% reported aggravation of autistic symptoms and heightened parental stress. Families reported discontinuation of therapy, more intrafamilial conflicts and increase of psychopharmacological medication of the child. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS: Our report on short-term detrimental effects of the pandemic calls for thorough investigation of long-term sequalae for children and families |
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spelling | pubmed-92714582022-07-11 Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on families living with autism: An online survey Isensee, Corinna Schmid, Benjamin Marschik, Peter B. Zhang, Dajie Poustka, Luise Res Dev Disabil Article BACKGROUND: The current SARS-CoV-2 global pandemic presents a great challenge for governments, health care professionals and the general population. Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) might be especially vulnerable to restrictions imposed by the crisis. AIM: The objective of the study was to examine the impact of the SARSCoV- 2 pandemic on children with ASD and their families. METHODS AND PROCEDURES: We conducted an online survey two months after the beginning of lock-down (18th of May to 5th of July 2020) in Germany and Austria. We investigated behavioral and emotional changes of children related to the lock-down alongside parental stress and intrafamilial burden OUTCOME AND RESULTS: Of the 216 participating families with an autistic child (mean age: 12.23 years), nearly 50% reported aggravation of autistic symptoms and heightened parental stress. Families reported discontinuation of therapy, more intrafamilial conflicts and increase of psychopharmacological medication of the child. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS: Our report on short-term detrimental effects of the pandemic calls for thorough investigation of long-term sequalae for children and families Elsevier Ltd. 2022-10 2022-07-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9271458/ /pubmed/35908370 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2022.104307 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Isensee, Corinna Schmid, Benjamin Marschik, Peter B. Zhang, Dajie Poustka, Luise Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on families living with autism: An online survey |
title | Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on families living with autism: An online survey |
title_full | Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on families living with autism: An online survey |
title_fullStr | Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on families living with autism: An online survey |
title_full_unstemmed | Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on families living with autism: An online survey |
title_short | Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on families living with autism: An online survey |
title_sort | impact of covid-19 pandemic on families living with autism: an online survey |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9271458/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35908370 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2022.104307 |
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