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Jan 31, 2023 · Averaged over 2019 and 2020, autistic adults were more likely to have best possible health and live in integrated settings compared to non-autistic adults: Not reported: Impact on wellbeing: Gibbs et al. (2021) Quantitative: Where: Australia. When: March–October 2020. CHI: 22.02–61.90. Autistic adults: Quantitative study:
- 10.1007/s40474-023-00268-6
- 2023
- Curr Dev Disord Rep. 2023; 10(1): 92-122.
- Multiple Risk Factors
- How to Reduce Risk of Severe Covid-19
- Improvements For The Future
The authors looked at adults who had Medicaid between 2008-2012 and how likely they were to have known risk factors for COVID-19. They included more than 80,000 people with autism and over 600,000 people with intellectual disabilities aged 20-64 years. To add perspective, they then compared this data to over 1 million adults. About 35% had been dia...
"Adults on the spectrum and adults with either intellectual disability or mental health diagnoses cannot change their pre-existing conditions," Whitney Schott, MA, PhD, study author and researcher at the Drexel Autism Institute, tells Verywell, because they often need the crucial services provided in residential facilities or by outside care. "[But...
Knowing risk factors, Shea says, can help shape policy and public health outreach while saving lives. Still, these areas lack funds and research. "We do not have robust information on how to tailor public health outreach materials or how to support clinicians in engaging these groups, especially when a crisis emerges quickly and national and local ...
- Sarah Simon
A lot of people are getting really sick because of Omicron. Some need to go to the hospital because they are so sick. That means hospitals are getting too crowded. They can’t help everyone they need to help. If less people get sick with Omicron, then less people need to go to the hospital. That means more people can get help at the hospital ...
Karpur et al showed that persons with autism are nine times more likely to be hospitalized and six times more likely to have extended hospital stays than those without autism. When hospitalized, children with autism have difficulties in social communication, the ability to express their symptoms, and understanding and following the safety guidelines.
The complexity of adhering to social distancing, quarantines, personal hygiene, and mask-wearing regulations among individuals with autism was acknowledged early in the pandemic. 1 The presence of lockdowns and the struggle to have children adhere to COVID-19 restrictions have led parents to report more intense and frequent behavior problems and increased difficulty in managing disruptions to ...
Aug 30, 2021 · Autistic adults, adults with intellectual disability, and adults with mental health diagnoses have multiple risk factors for infection with COVID-19 and for experiencing more severe disease if they contract COVID-19, according to research from the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute at Drexel University. Identifying risk factors for COVID-19 among ...
Specific hypotheses were: (i) Changes in psychopathological measures compared to those obtained before the lockdown onset, with higher scores expected in the post-lockdown evaluation; (ii) differences in ASD severity level and age, with people with more severe ASD forms and younger participants obtaining higher scores in the psychopathological measures; (iii) subjective perception of changes ...
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