Study on Family Burden of Parents with Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

DOI

10.2991/hss-17.2017.125How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Parents, Mental Burden.

Abstract

In this study, we evaluate mental burden of parents with children with autism spectrum disorders by using Self-compiled personal questionnaire composed by demographic and household data, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and the Parenting Locus of Control Scale (PLOC). And we use logistic regression analysis to explore the influencing factors of parents' mental burden. In conclusions, parents with children with ASD have much more mental burden than ordinary parents. More than half of them are in abnormal anxiety and depression. And those parents have some abnormal performances in educating their autistic children in the dimensions of educational effectiveness, children's control, and parental control, which is caused mainly by the proportion of treatment costs, the implementation of rehabilitation training program, as well as their degree of anxiety and depression.

Copyright

© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Wei-Ying Chen
AU  - Hui Wang
AU  - Yun Xu
PY  - 2017/02
DA  - 2017/02
TI  - Study on Family Burden of Parents with Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 2nd International Conference on Humanities and Social Science (HSS 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 723
EP  - 728
SN  - 2352-5398
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