Brondino Natascia, Damiani Stefano, Politi Pierluigi
Department of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, University of Pavia, via Bassi 21, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
Brain Sci. 2020 Jul 9;10(7):436. doi: 10.3390/brainsci10070436.
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed a serious challenge for the life and mental health of people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). COVID-19 sanitary restrictions led to significant changes in the lives of people with ASD, including their routines; similarly, these modifications affected the daily activities of the daycare centers which they attended. The present retrospective study evaluated the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on challenging behaviors in a cohort of people with severe ASD attending a daycare center in Italy at the beginning of the pandemic. During the first two weeks of the pandemic, we did not observe variations in challenging behaviors. This suggests that adaptations used to support these individuals with ASD in adapting to the COVID-19 emergency restrictions were effective for managing their behavior.
新冠疫情给自闭症谱系障碍(ASD)患者的生活和心理健康带来了严峻挑战。新冠疫情防控措施导致ASD患者的生活发生了重大变化,包括日常活动;同样,这些变化也影响了他们所参加的日托中心的日常活动。本回顾性研究评估了疫情初期意大利一家日托中心中,新冠疫情防控措施对一群重度ASD患者的挑战行为的影响。在疫情的头两周,我们没有观察到挑战行为的变化。这表明,为帮助这些ASD患者适应新冠疫情紧急防控措施而采取的调整措施,在管理他们的行为方面是有效的。