ERIC Number: EJ973724
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Aug
Pages: 8
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Detecting Autism Spectrum Disorders in the General Practitioner's Practice
van Tongerloo, Michelle A. M. M.; Bor, Hans H. J.; Lagro-Janssen, Antoine L. M.
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, v42 n8 p1531-1538 Aug 2012
It takes considerable time before Autism Spectrum Disorders are diagnosed. Validated diagnostic instruments are available, but not applicable to primary healthcare. By means of a case-control study we investigated whether there were differences in presented complaints and referral patterns between children with ASD (n = 49) and a control group of children without ASD (n = 81). Children with ASD were often presented as crybabies and often showed feeding problems. They visited the GP's surgery more often with anxiety disorders, enuresis, and sleeping disorders. They were referred more often to physiotherapists and speech-therapists and had tympanostomy tubes and tonsillectomies more often. Depression in the parents of children with ASD was remarkably prevalent. (Contains 6 tables.)
Descriptors: Anxiety Disorders, Control Groups, Autism, Depression (Psychology), Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Disability Identification, Comparative Analysis, Clinical Diagnosis, Children, Eating Disorders, Sleep, Child Health, Mental Health, Parents, Family Practice (Medicine)
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