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Health-Related Quality of Life of Parents of Children With High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders

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	Abstract

The physical and mental health-related quality of life (QOL) of 89 parents of children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders (HFASDs) was compared to the health-related QOL of 46 parents of children without disabilities. Parents completed a packet of surveys measuring demographics, parenting stress, coping, resources, and QOL. Results of t tests showed significant differences between the two groups for all variables. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that for parents of children with HFASDs, demographics and psychosocial variables accounted for a significant amount of variance for physical health-related QOL, with income, number of children, and stress being significant variables. Demographics and psychosocial variables also accounted for a significant amount of variance for parents’ mental health-related QOL, with income and stress being significant variables.

First published on September 29, 2009, doi:10.1177/1088357609347371

Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities 2009;24:227.

A more recent version of this article appeared on December 1, 2009


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