Nuñez Alicia, Le Roy Catalina, Coelho-Medeiros María Elisa, López-Espejo Mauricio
Unit of Neurology, Division of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Neurodevelopment Unit, UC CHRISTUS Clinical Hospital, Santiago, Chile.
Neurol Sci. 2021 May;42(5):1675-1678. doi: 10.1007/s10072-021-05147-9. Epub 2021 Feb 28.
Cross-sectional data from 118 Chilean children with ASD collected during the pandemic outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 were evaluated to analyze predictors of behavioral problem impairment.
Forty-five percent of parents stated that their children's behavioral difficulties increased in intensity or frequency. The adjusted predictors were having a family member hospitalized with COVID-19 (OR = 4.11; 95% CI = 1.53-11.1) and parents' mental health disorders during the pandemic (OR = 2.43; 95% CI = 1.01-5.83).
Potentially modifiable psychosocial factors affecting children's behavior should be considered in a possible second outbreak.
对2020年新冠疫情爆发期间收集的118名智利自闭症儿童的横断面数据进行评估,以分析行为问题损害的预测因素。
45%的家长表示,其孩子的行为困难在强度或频率上有所增加。校正后的预测因素包括有家庭成员因新冠住院(比值比=4.11;95%置信区间=1.53-11.1)以及疫情期间家长的心理健康障碍(比值比=2.43;95%置信区间=1.01-5.83)。
在可能出现的第二轮疫情中,应考虑影响儿童行为的潜在可改变的社会心理因素。