Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, USA.
Mahler Occupational Therapy, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, USA.
Occup Ther Int. 2022 Apr 20;2022:9328967. doi: 10.1155/2022/9328967. eCollection 2022.
The aim of this study was to determine the feasibility and effectiveness of a 25-week school-based intervention and its ability to improve interoception and emotion regulation in an autistic pediatric population.
One-group pre- and posttest design implementing in a self-contained school. Participants were 14 (11 male, 3 female) students between 9 and 19 years old. The Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function 2 (BRIEF-2) and the Caregiver Questionnaire for Interoceptive Awareness-2nd Edition (CQIA-2) were used to determine changes in interoceptive awareness and emotion regulation.
Statistically significant improvements were found between the preintervention and postintervention scores for both interoceptive awareness and emotion regulation.
This was the first study to examine the Interoception Curriculum in its entirety, providing evidence that the use of the Interoception Curriculum is feasible in a school setting and suggests that this intervention is effective for improvement of interoception. Findings also suggest that this improvement in interoception is related to improvement in emotional regulation for an autistic pediatric population.
本研究旨在确定基于学校的 25 周干预措施的可行性和有效性,以及其改善自闭症儿童群体的内感受和情绪调节的能力。
采用自我隔离学校中的单组前后测设计。参与者为 14 名(11 名男性,3 名女性)年龄在 9 至 19 岁之间的学生。使用行为评定量表的执行功能 2 版(BRIEF-2)和内感受意识第二版的照顾者问卷(CQIA-2)来确定内感受意识和情绪调节的变化。
内感受意识和情绪调节的干预前后评分均显示出统计学上的显著改善。
这是首次对整个内感受课程进行的研究,提供了使用内感受课程在学校环境中是可行的证据,并表明该干预措施对于改善内感受是有效的。研究结果还表明,对于自闭症儿童群体,内感受的这种改善与情绪调节的改善有关。