Golya Nandita, McIntyre Laura Lee
Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.
J Intellect Dev Disabil. 2018;43(1):102-111. doi: 10.3109/13668250.2017.1287886. Epub 2017 Feb 1.
Understanding adaptive behaviour variability in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may have important implications for early intervention. The purpose of this study was to explore whether autism symptom severity and caregiver depression affected adaptive behaviour in young children with ASD.
Data were collected from 60 primary caregivers of children aged 2-6 years with ASD. A factorial multivariate analysis of covariance was conducted to investigate if different levels of autism symptom severity and caregiver depression affected communication, socialisation, and daily living skills, after controlling for child age.
Findings suggest that only autism symptom severity accounted for significant variance in adaptive behaviour, with socialisation being most impacted. Although more than half of the caregivers reported heightened depressive symptoms, caregiver depression was not related to adaptive behaviour.
Findings highlight the level of functional impairment that young children with ASD experience in relation to autism symptom severity.
了解自闭症谱系障碍(ASD)儿童的适应性行为变异性可能对早期干预具有重要意义。本研究的目的是探讨自闭症症状严重程度和照顾者抑郁是否会影响ASD幼儿的适应性行为。
收集了60名2至6岁ASD儿童的主要照顾者的数据。在控制儿童年龄后,进行了析因多变量协方差分析,以调查不同程度的自闭症症状严重程度和照顾者抑郁是否会影响沟通、社交和日常生活技能。
研究结果表明,只有自闭症症状严重程度在适应性行为中占显著差异,社交受到的影响最大。尽管超过一半的照顾者报告有抑郁症状加重的情况,但照顾者抑郁与适应性行为无关。
研究结果突出了ASD幼儿在自闭症症状严重程度方面所经历 的功能损害水平。