Efficacy of family rehabilitation treatment performed by parents under the guidance of professionals in children with autism spectrum disorder: a prospective study
ZHANG Ya-Ru, TAO Hong-Mei, YANG Guang, WANG Yi, SHA Lin, SHAO Zhi
Rehabilitation Treatment Center for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Ninth People's Hospital of Chongqing, Chongqing 400700, China
Abstract Objective To study the efficacy of family rehabilitation treatment performed by parents under the guidance of professionals in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Methods In the prospective study, 60 children with ASD, aged 24-60 months, were randomly divided into an observation group and a conventional group. The parents of the children in the conventional group received an online training on basic knowledge and rehabilitation training of ASD alone, and those in the observation group received the online training and performed family rehabilitation treatment under the guidance of a professional team. Psycho-Education Profile Third Edition (PEP-3) and Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS) were used to evaluate the changes in related abilities after intervention. Results After 6 months of intervention, the scores of all dimensions of the PEP-3 scale in the observation group and most dimensions of the conventional group significantly increased (P<0.01); the CARS scale scores of the two groups significantly decreased (P<0.05). Compared with the conventional group, the observation group had significant increases in the scores of the dimensions of language understanding, language expression, gross motor, fine motor, self-care ability of daily living (P<0.05), and adaptive behavior (P<0.05), as well as a significant reduction in the CARS score (P<0.05). Conclusions An online training on basic knowledge and rehabilitation training of ASD for parents can improve the abilities and core clinical symptoms of children with ASD. The family rehabilitation treatment model with a team of professionals as the resource platform and parents as the performer has a more significant efficacy on improving the language, sports, and other abilities and alleviating the severity of the symptoms in children with ASD.
ZHANG Ya-Ru,TAO Hong-Mei,YANG Guang et al. Efficacy of family rehabilitation treatment performed by parents under the guidance of professionals in children with autism spectrum disorder: a prospective study[J]. CJCP, 2021, 23(12): 1256-1261.
ZHANG Ya-Ru,TAO Hong-Mei,YANG Guang et al. Efficacy of family rehabilitation treatment performed by parents under the guidance of professionals in children with autism spectrum disorder: a prospective study[J]. CJCP, 2021, 23(12): 1256-1261.
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