自闭症情绪失调:儿童早期的严重程度和相关性
Jessie B Northrup1, Amy G Hartman1, Kristen T MacKenzie1
1Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
概括
情绪失调 (ED) 在自闭症学龄前儿童中比同龄人更为常见和严重. 在幼儿自闭症中,早期对ED进行查和干预至关重要.
科学领域:
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
- 儿童精神病学 儿童精神病学
- 自闭症谱系障碍研究研究
背景情况:
- 情绪失调 (ED) 在老年自闭症青少年中普遍且严重,但在学龄前儿童中缺乏研究.
- 关于自闭症临界学前诊断时期的ED特征的研究有限.
研究的目的:
- 在2-5岁的自闭症儿童中特征ED.
- 为了比较自闭症儿童和对照儿童的ED患病率和严重程度.
- 在自闭学学龄前儿童样本中识别ED的相关性.
主要方法:
- 通过在线问卷调查,与1864名2-5岁儿童的父母进行了采访.
- 包括自闭症,发展问题 (没有自闭症) 和没有发展问题的群体.
- 测量ED使用家长报告的情绪失调库存-幼儿 (反应和失调维度).
主要成果:
- 自闭症学前儿童比没有发育问题的同龄人表现出明显更严重的ED (反应性和失调症).
- 自闭症儿童患有临床显著反应的可能性是4倍,患有性障碍的可能性是3倍.
- 自闭症特征,睡眠问题,语言能力和父母抑郁症与自闭症儿童的ED有很强的相关性.
结论:
- 这项研究提供了年轻自闭症儿童ED的初步特征,突出了与神经类型同龄人的显著差异.
- 结果强调需要进一步研究这个人群中ED的患病率,严重程度和相关性.
- 研究结果表明,早期查和干预幼儿自闭症ED的潜在好处.
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