Department of Psychology, Utah State University, 2810 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT, 84322, USA.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2022 Nov;52(11):5058-5063. doi: 10.1007/s10803-021-05341-w. Epub 2021 Nov 8.
As many individuals in the general population will likely interact with autistic persons in various contexts, ensuring adequate autism knowledge and awareness is important. Increased knowledge of autism has been linked to positive outcomes such as a reduction in explicit bias against autism by non-autistic adults and an increase in service quality for autistic individuals provided by indirect professionals. For this study we developed an informational video about autism and employed a randomized control trial to evaluate its effectiveness at increasing autism awareness in a general population sample. Participants were randomly assigned to the intervention (n = 80) or active control group (n = 72). Results from a repeated measures analysis of variance indicated that the video intervention was effective at increasing knowledge about autism. Results from this study can be applied to future educational efforts aimed at increasing awareness about autism among the general population.
由于普通人群中的许多人可能会在各种情况下与自闭症患者互动，因此确保具备足够的自闭症知识和意识非常重要。自闭症知识的增加与积极的结果相关，例如非自闭症成年人对自闭症的显性偏见减少，以及自闭症患者间接专业人员提供的服务质量提高。在这项研究中，我们制作了一段关于自闭症的信息视频，并采用随机对照试验来评估其在普通人群样本中提高自闭症意识的效果。参与者被随机分配到干预组（n=80）或主动对照组（n=72）。重复测量方差分析的结果表明，视频干预措施有效地提高了自闭症知识。本研究的结果可应用于未来旨在提高普通人群对自闭症认识的教育努力。
