Prevalence of Sensory Impairments, Physical and Intellectual Disabilities, and Mental Health in Children and Young People with Self/Proxy-Reported Autism: Observational Study of a Whole Country Population

Autor/inn/en	Rydzewska, Ewelina; Hughes-McCormack, Laura A.; Gillberg, Christopher; Henderson, Angela; MacIntyre, Cecilia; Rintoul, Julie; Cooper, Sally-Ann
Titel	Prevalence of Sensory Impairments, Physical and Intellectual Disabilities, and Mental Health in Children and Young People with Self/Proxy-Reported Autism: Observational Study of a Whole Country Population
Quelle	In: Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 23 (2019) 5, S.1201-1209 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1362-3613
DOI	10.1177/1362361318791279
Schlagwörter	Incidence; Autism; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Physical Disabilities; Intellectual Disability; Hearing Impairments; Visual Impairments; Children; Adolescents; Young Adults; Comorbidity; Mental Health; Gender Differences; Age Differences; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom (Scotland) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Vorkommen; Autismus; Physical handicap; Körperbehinderung; Intellect; Disability; Disabilities; Verstand; Behinderung; Hearing impairment; Hörbehinderung; Visual handicap; Sehbehinderung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Psychohygiene; Geschlechterkonflikt; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Ausland
Abstract	This study investigated the comorbid conditions in a whole country population of children/young people aged 0-24 years with and without autism. Data were drawn from Scotland's Census 2011. We calculated the percentage with autism, their extent of comorbid conditions, odds ratio (with 95% confidence intervals) of autism predicting comorbidities, adjusted for age and gender, and odds ratio for age and gender predicting comorbidities within the cohort with autism. A total of 25,063/1,548,819 (1.6%) had autism: 19,880 (79.3%) males and 5183 (20.7%) females. Autism had an odds ratio of 5.4 (5.1-5.6) for predicting deafness/partial hearing loss, odds ratio of 8.9 (8.1-9.7) for blindness/partial sight loss, odds ratio of 49.7 (38.1-64.9) for intellectual disabilities, odds ratio of 15.7 (13.4-18.5) for mental health conditions, odds ratio of 15.8 (14.1-17.8) for physical disability and odds ratio of 3.9 (3.8-4.0) for other conditions. Females with autism were more likely to have each additional condition than males, including intellectual disabilities, suggesting they may have more severe autism than males and adding evidence that autism may be currently underdiagnosed in more intellectually able females. These conditions are disabling and have a significant impact on long-term quality of life; their coexistence with autism adds extra complexity. It is important to raise clinicians' awareness of this extent of comorbidity, and to have accurate prevalence data to plan prevention and intervention measures, and to follow health inequality trends. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01