Functional Status and Psychopathology in Adults with Child Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders
https://doi.org/10.30629/2618-6667-2019-17-2-29-36
Abstract
Background: follow-up of Child autistic spectrum disorders in adults is unknown.
The objective: to study follow-up and functional state of adults diagnosed as Autistic spectrum disorders in childhood.
Material and methods: parents of 70 adults with child diagnoses of autism spectrum disorders were interviewed on follow-up their adult children diagnosed as Autistic spectrum disorders in childhood. Kind of employement and social status were defined. Level of daily-life functioning was assessed as high, medium and low. The link between psychopathology appearing and levels of functioning was analyzed. High functioning correlated with adults' proneness to depression and low functioning was found in catatonia. Tendency to anxiety, dysphoria and aggression was common.
Conclusion: follow-up study of autism spectrum disorders in childhood showed different psychopathological and functional outcomes in adults.
About the Author
L. G. Borodina
Moscow State University of Psychology and Pedagogics
Russian Federation
Lyubov G. Borodina, Cand. of Sci. (Med.), psychiatrist, the State Scientific Center of Mental Health Childrenand Adolescents of the Department of Health of Moscow, associate professor in the department of clinical andforensic psychology faculty legal psychology
Russian Federation
Lyubov G. Borodina, Cand. of Sci. (Med.), psychiatrist, the State Scientific Center of Mental Health Childrenand Adolescents of the Department of Health of Moscow, associate professor in the department of clinical andforensic psychology faculty legal psychology
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Borodina L.G. Functional Status and Psychopathology in Adults with Child Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Psychiatry (Moscow) (Psikhiatriya). 2019;17(2):29-36. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.30629/2618-6667-2019-17-2-29-36
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