Aksheya Sridhar, Jocelyn Kuhn, Susan Faja, Maura Sabatos-DeVito, Julia I Nikolaeva, Geraldine Dawson, Charles A Nelson, Sara J Webb, Raphael Bernier, Shafali Jeste, Katarzyna Chawarska, Catherine A Sugar, Frederick Shic, Adam Naples, James Dziura, James C McPartland
When designing and interpreting results from clinical trials evaluating treatments for children on the autism spectrum, a complicating factor is that most children receive a range of concurrent treatments. Thus, it is important to better understand the types and hours of interventions that participants typically receive as part of standard of care, as well as to understand the child, family, and geographic factors that are associated with different patterns of service utilization. In this multi-site study, we interviewed 280 caregivers of 6-to-11-year-old school-aged children on the autism spectrum about the types and amounts of interventions their children received in the prior 6 weeks...
June 2022: Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders