scholarly journals Early sensory over-responsivity in toddlers with autism spectrum disorders as a predictor of family impairment and parenting stress

2013 ◽  
Vol 54 (8) ◽  
pp. 846-853 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Ben-Sasson ◽  
T. W. Soto ◽  
F. Martínez-Pedraza ◽  
A. S. Carter
2015 ◽  
Vol 06 (04) ◽  
pp. 529-535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suravi Patra ◽  
Priti Arun ◽  
Bir Singh Chavan

ABSTRACT Context: Parents of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in India face a host of challenges, while seeking care which ranges from unavailability of information to difficulty in availing services. Aims: To develop a psycho-education intervention module for parents of children with ASD and to study its impact on parent stress and knowledge. Settings and Design: Child Guidance Clinic Department of Psychiatry, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh. Interventional study. Methodology: Parents of children diagnosed with ASD as per Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition criteria, recruited through consecutive sampling. Total number of 18 participants participated in the two phase study. Phase I included preparation of a parent training module through a four stage process and Phase II was evaluation of impact of the final version of the module on parental stress and knowledge. Statistical Analysis: Wilcoxon Signed-Rank test using SPSS version 17.0. Results: There was an improvement in all the domains of parenting stress and knowledge. Social stress score and total stress score showed significant improvement. Conclusions: Parent psycho-education intervention module on ASD decreases parenting stress, and improves knowledge about ASD. Psycho-education intervention module is a feasible and acceptable way of parent empowerment.


2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 336-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anat Zaidman-Zait ◽  
Pat Mirenda ◽  
Bruno D. Zumbo ◽  
Stelios Georgiades ◽  
Peter Szatmari ◽  
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2012 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 575-582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ji Wang ◽  
YanJie Hu ◽  
Yuan Wang ◽  
XiuQun Qin ◽  
Wei Xia ◽  
...  

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