tailieunhanh - báo cáo hóa học:" Health-related quality of life in parents of school-age children with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về hóa học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học đề tài : Health-related quality of life in parents of school-age children with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism | BioMed Central Health and Quality of Life Outcomes Research Open Access Health-related quality of life in parents of school-age children with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism Hiie Allik 1 Jan-Olov Larsson1 and Hans Smedje2 Address 1Karolinska Institutet Dept. of Woman and Child Health Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Unit Astrid Lindgren Children s Hospital SE-171 76 Stockholm Sweden and 2Uppsala University Dept. of Neuroscience Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Unit SE-751 85 Uppsala Sweden Email Hiie Allik - Jan-Olov Larsson - Hans Smedje - Corresponding author Published 04 January 2006 Received 26 October 2005 Health and Quality ofLife Outcomes 2006 4 1 doi 1477-7525-4-1 Accepted 04 January 2006 This article is available from http content 4 1 1 2006 Allik et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background The estimated prevalence rate of Pervasive Developmental Disorders PDD in children is 6 per . Parenting children who are intellectually impaired and have PDDs is known to be linked to the impaired well-being of the parents themselves. However there is still little available data on health-related quality of life HRQL in parents of children with Asperger Syndrome AS and High-Functioning Autism HFA or other PDD diagnoses in children of normal intelligence. The present study aimed to evaluate aspects of HRQL in parents of school-age children with AS HFA and the correlates with child behaviour characteristics. Methods The sample consisted of 31 mothers and 30 fathers of 32 children with AS HFA and 30 mothers and 29 fathers of 32 age and gender matched children with typical development. Parental HRQL