JAACAP Open, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown
Published: May 1, 2025
Language: Английский
Nature Reviews Psychology, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 1(11), P. 624 - 639
Published: Sept. 5, 2022
Language: Английский
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Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 57(2), P. 213 - 229
Published: April 12, 2022
COVID-19 has led to disruptions the lives of Australian families through social distancing, school closures, a temporary move home-based online learning, and effective lockdown. Understanding effects on child adolescent mental health is important inform policies support communities as they continue face pandemic future crises. This paper sought report symptoms in children adolescents during initial stages (May November 2020) examine their association with child/family characteristics exposure broad environment.An baseline survey was completed by 1327 parents carers aged 4 17 years. Parents/carers reported child's using five measures, including emotional symptoms, conduct problems, hyperactivity/inattention, anxiety depressive symptoms. Child/family COVID-related variables were measured.Overall, 30.5%, 26.3% 9.5% our sample scored high very range for problems respectively. Similarly, 20.2% 20.4% clinical A pre-existing diagnosis, neurodevelopmental condition chronic illness significantly predicted parent-reported Parental having close contact applying government financial assistance COVID-19, associated symptoms.Our findings show that experienced considerable levels phase COVID-19. highlights need targeted affected youth, particularly those vulnerabilities.
Language: Английский
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43
Autism, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 26(7), P. 1765 - 1782
Published: Jan. 27, 2022
During the COVID-19 pandemic, high levels of depression, anxiety and stress have been reported in general population. However, much less has about impact on mental health autistic people. What we did: In present study, investigated how adults United Kingdom changed during early stages pandemic. total, 133 participants completed an online survey at two different time points. Of participants, 70 first point just before onset national lockdown. This allowed us to look changes their health, from lockdown 10 15 weeks All (133) told experiences found: While many that worsened, people's experience varied. For some adults, aspects (e.g. anxiety, stress) actually improved. Participants also described social had occurred, home outside world. They feelings uncertainty discussed pandemic affected previous coping strategies. difficulties accessing healthcare services food our article, discuss these findings focus what needs change ensure people are better supported as continues.
Language: Английский
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Current Psychiatry Reports, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 25(9), P. 419 - 427
Published: Aug. 8, 2023
All people-including Autistic people-deserve to live flourishing lives. But what does a life look like for people? We suggest that the hidden biases, methodological errors, and key assumptions of autism science have obscured answers this question. Here, we seek initiate broader discussion about foundations good might be how framed.
Language: Английский
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37
BMC Health Services Research, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 23(1)
Published: April 6, 2023
Disruptions to healthcare services during the COVID-19 pandemic are well-recognised problems. However, a dearth of research exists on disabled people's experiences with accessing these services. A scoping review was undertaken identify and explore experience people in between 2020 6 February 2023.
Language: Английский
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Autism, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 27(1), P. 188 - 199
Published: June 6, 2022
We know that autistic children and young people, their caregivers, are at increased risk of mental ill health. asked whether the first 6 months COVID-19 exacerbated risk, implications were different for pupils than those with other special educational needs difficulties. In a linked paper, we found caregivers reported higher levels depression anxiety symptoms in parents difficulties (Toseeb & Asbury, 2022). For difficulties, parent-reported eased over time while remaining high throughout pupils. There no differences health wellbeing between Here, used parents' written descriptions own child's during to explore these findings greater depth. identified strong evidence worry distress all, but most prominently people. Our finding declined not pupils, was supported observed few caregivers. also sample, examples some (mainly autistic) benefitting from reduction demands (e.g. going school). This has our understanding school experience Findings suggest people may have been disproportionately affected careful consideration optimal support, both education perspectives, is vital.
Language: Английский
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Frontiers in Psychology, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 12
Published: Jan. 3, 2022
Autistic students are more likely to drop out of university, while facing both challenges and opportunities within university environments. This study compared the experiences autistic non-autistic current United Kingdom students, in terms thoughts about dropping out, burnout, mental health coping, during COVID-19 pandemic. Burnout was particular interest as this is a relatively unexamined phenomenon for students. Seventy 315 completed mixed methods questionnaire with standardized measures burnout (personal academic), (depression, stress, anxiety), coping styles (adaptive maladaptive). We also included qualitative questions experiences. found participants experienced higher rates symptoms were have thought out. Reasons given thinking groups, focused on poor well-being, doubts academic challenges. For participants, further analyses did not identify specific predictors but predicted by maladaptive burnout. Academic personal one another age, characteristics, anxiety additionally Similarities pandemic noted, groups experiencing negative social implications, difficulties adjusting emergency online learning, poorer psychological well-being. Moving forward from COVID-19, universities must find ways enhance support, enable equal opportunity Higher Education
Language: Английский
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Current Developmental Disorders Reports, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 10(1), P. 92 - 122
Published: Jan. 31, 2023
Abstract Purpose of Review The COVID-19 pandemic and its associated restrictions have had a significant impact on people’s everyday lives, including the lives Autistic adults. We aimed to (a) synthesise all papers currently published autistic adults (b) identify lessons for care support in post-pandemic times. Recent Findings Fifty-five met inclusion criteria. Most studies focused pandemic’s wellbeing Several use (telehealth) services or risk infection/hospitalisation. Summary were significantly impacted by pandemic, both directly as indicated higher infection hospitalisation rates, but also indirectly due severe service disruptions social restrictions. Even though there large differences observed between well within individuals terms negative/positive effects most reported negative effect adults’ mental health. draw several from this review future adults, which must be underpinned participatory research methods, that is, where community members are actively involved setting questions, testing acceptability methods interpreting disseminating results.
Language: Английский
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Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 106(2), P. 175 - 195
Published: Jan. 23, 2023
In this paper, we critically analyse the response to COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting not only breadth of knowledge geographers have already contributed assessment, but also surprisingly limited critique within geography, social sciences and broadly defined 'Academic Left' authoritarian dimension public health policies 2020 onwards. We conclude with a number research questions for aftermath hope that they will help spur growth new wave anti-authoritarian Leftist geographical thinking reaffirms centrality human rights civil liberties making world better place.
Language: Английский
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Autism, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 28(9), P. 2204 - 2217
Published: Jan. 19, 2024
Autism researchers have a long-time interest in set of skills called executive function. These include planning, inhibition, and switching between one activity another. There was theory that these explained the social thinking difficulties autistic people might have. After years study into this, evidence is confusing contradictory. Autistic tend to report struggling quite lot with skills. Yet, when test skills, they do not find such big difficulties. In this study, we spoke 12 teenagers seven their mothers about this. We asked them what thought own, or child's, function wanted know things were good at struggled with. They told us very changeable from context next time next. According reports, depended on how motivated by doing task. Another thing influenced anxious felt needed use skill. Finally, sometimes think differently best perform discuss insights mean for autism who future, research should ask experiences alongside testing abilities different contexts. Combining information sources will give better understanding people's everyday as well support them.
Language: Английский
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