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Filter by:OBJECTIVE: To explore the intervention effect of ACT combined with a yoga intervention program on parenting burnout in parents with ASD. METHODS: This study used a combination of qualitative research and quantitative analysis to examine the intervention effects of an ACT-centered intervention program on parenting burnout in parents of children with ASD, and to clarify the evaluations and perceptions of parents with ASD about the research program through qualitative research. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: To clarify the intervention effect of ACT combined with yoga intervention program on parenting burnout of ASD parents.
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder, which is characterized by social interaction and communication defects, rigid repetitive behaviors, and often accompanied by speech development retardation. According to the report released by the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), according to the statistical data analysis in 2020, one out of every 36 8-year-old children (2.76%) was confirmed to have autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This ratio is higher than that published in December 2021, when the prevalence rate of 8-year-old children was 1/44 (2.3%) according to the statistics in 2018. Although ASD has a high incidence, there is still a lack of effective treatment measures for autism at present. Drug treatment can only partially alleviate some related symptoms, such as irritability and aggressiveness. Other interventions mainly focus on behavioral and educational interventions, which have limited help to patients. The high cost also leads to a huge burden on families and health care systems. Therefore, finding targeted treatment measures and treatment mechanisms for ASD as soon as possible has become an urgent problem for us to solve.Faced with limited treatment options, as many as a third of parents try various dietary pattern interventions to help their autistic children. In recent years, ketogenic diet, as a diet mode with extremely low carbohydrate, high fat, proper amount of protein and other nutrients, has attracted wide attention. In this mode, increased lipolysis puts the body in a ketosis state, thus ensuring energy supply.Although ketogenic diet (KD) has been proved to be effective in reducing the core symptoms in autistic patients and mouse models, the specific mechanism of KD in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is still not completely clear.This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of ketogenic diet in improving core symptoms, sleep disorders and gastrointestinal symptoms of ASD children, explore the changes of excitation/inhibition (dorsolateral prefrontal cortex) in prefrontal cortex of ASD children before and after ketogenic diet intervention, and try to reveal the mechanism of ketogenic diet in treating ASD.
Advanced social relations protocol is aimed at young people with autism aged 9-12 years with an intelligence quotient (IQ) ≥ 80. There will be an experimental group in which technology will be used and a control group in which activities will be carried out in the traditional way. The protocol will be carried out once a week for a duration of 45 minutes. The aim is to enhance communication and social skills within the group. A total of 23 sessions are planned. From the first to the third session the participants will acquire skills for communicating and conversing in an appropriate way. Thereafter from the fourth to the eleventh session social stories illustrating scenes from everyday life will be shown, with the aim of learning and managing the dynamics in which they find themselves on a daily basis. At the end of each story shown they will be asked to impersonate the protagonists depicted in the stories, each participant involved in turn will play all the roles shown in the stories, thus working in the mode of role playing. The last part, which includes sessions from the twelfth to the twenty-third, will be dedicated to the correct and conscious use of social networks with a focus on the risks that can be encountered and the correct ways to make good use of them.
Autism spectrum disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder that encompasses a number of disorders specifically affecting social skills, Communication and present with Rapid repetitive behaviors. Autism spectrum disorder also presents with inability of body to process sensory information which can causes symptoms such as balance deficits, sensitivity to certain sounds or an exaggerated reaction to a normal stimulus. Autism spectrum disorder can affect the quality of life of an individual to a severe extent. This disorder due to sensory processing deficits also shows difficulty in motor planning, coordination and execution of tasks which can make performing activities of daily living highly difficult to perform. It is called a developmental disorder because it affects the growth. Milestones are often delayed in individuals with autism. Due to these deficits individual with autism if not provided with therapies at the right age can stay dependent on caretaker for their whole life. Rapid repetitive behaviors also known as self-stimulatory behaviors are a way to compensate with anxiety, difficulty in processing sensory information and are often used to stimulate themselves to feel calm. Though not a diagnostic symptom autism often still presents with vestibular dysfunction which affects the balance. Several individuals with autism have showed abnormal vestibular ocular reflexes; abnormally long latency of saccades. Rehabilitation protocol of Autism often includes symptomatic treatment and several therapy protocols such as physical therapy, occupational therapy, applied behavior analysis therapy and play therapy.
This study aims to collect basic data to develop a tool for early screening of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in children and adolescents through eye tracking and motion analysis.
Brief Summary: Eating problems and in particular food selectivity is a condition that worsens a long-life disorder such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) , both on an individual level, both on family and social ones . Children (2-6 years) diagnosed with ASD according to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5 Edition (DSM5) criteria were enrolled in an observational, cross-sectional and multicentric study conducted by three different Italian clinical centers. Regarding this sample, principal aims of the study are to describe characteristics of food selectivity, to evaluate its correlation with ASD symptoms, with cognitive and adaptive functioning of ASD preschoolers, to describe its impact on parental stress.
The main goal of this study is to investigate anatomo-functional brain abnormalities associated with autism spectrum disorders using a multimodal brain imaging approach, as well as its links to social cognition difficulties measured using eye-tracking
1. Study purpose: To demonstrate the superiority of AST-001 compared to placebo in improving core symptoms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in children with ASD. 2. Background: ASD is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by deficits in social communication and social interaction as well as restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities. There are no approved medicines to treat the core symptom of ASD. Although these drugs and other psychotropic medications are associated with side effects, the use of psychotropic drugs to treat associated psychiatric comorbidities is common. AST-001 is developed to treat the core symptom of ASD. 3. Design: Multicenter, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Phase 3 clinical trial followed by an Open-Label Extension Treatment Period
The goal of this observational study is to test a reciprocal relationship between statistical learning and the development of language and literacy in first-graders with autism and their non-autistic peers. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1. whether children's statistical learning abilities can predict their long-term improvement of language and literacy skills in school; 2. how children's brains automatically learn patterns from speech and prints; 3. whether children's learning in the lab reflects the language patterns they have learned over the years from their native language. First-grade students will participate in the study twice across three months. During Time 1, children will complete - a battery of language, reading, and cognitive assessments - a series of computer-based statistical learning games both inside and outside of functional MRI scanner. During Time 2, children will complete a battery of language and reading assessments to detect the growth in three months. Researchers will compare the autistic and the non-autistic groups to see if statistical learning plays a similar or different role in predicting children's language and literacy growth.
This is a pilot randomised controlled trial to explore the acceptability and feasibility of laughter yoga about anxiety and depression reduction in children with ASD and parenting stress reduction for their parents. Hypotheses of this study include: 1. Laughter yoga is acceptable to children with ASD and their parents. 2. Laughter yoga is feasible for anxiety and depression reduction in children with ASD and parenting stress reduction in their parents. 3. Participants in the experimental group will have significantly more reduction in depression, anxiety and parental stress than those in the wait-list-control group.