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- Title
Özel Eğitim ve İlaç Alan Otistik Bozukluklu Çocukların Otistik Belirtiler Açısından Sekiz Haftalık İzlemi ve Ek Tanı Özellikleri.
- Authors
Akbaş, Seher; Karabekiroğlu, Koray; Pazvantoğlu, Ozan; Böke, Ömer
- Abstract
Objectives: In eight-week period, we aimed to explore symptom distribution changes and comorbid features of autistic children. Methods: Children and their parents were assessd in psychiatry clinic in terms of DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria. Mothers completed Autistic Behavior Checlist (AuBC) and Aberrant Behavior Checklist (ABC) in the first session. Mothers continued completing ABC twice every month. Sociodemographic variables, treatment and progress history of the disorder before and after the first session were obtained from the hospital files. Results: The autictic children (n:27) were 4.51±1.62 years-old on average. Mean score of AuBC was 70.33±16.80. Attention deficit hyperactivity problems were appearantly higher (%70.4). During the first session, AuBC scores did not reveal significant difference whether or not the child received special education and/or medication (p>0.05). After eight-week special education plus drug therapy, ABC scores showed significant improvement in stereotypies (p=0.003) and hyperactivity (p:0.015) subscores. Conclusions: The results reveal that attention deficit hyperactivity problems highly co-occur in autism and special education plus medication therapy particularly target stereotypies and hyperactivity symptoms. While different types of treatments have differential effect on different symptom clusters, in autism management we need both a detailed exploration of comorbid disorders and assessment of differential effects of treatments on different symptom profiles.
- Subjects
SYMPTOMS; AUTISM; AUTISTIC children; ATTENTION-deficit hyperactivity disorder; SPECIAL education; AUTISM in children
- Publication
Klinik Psikiyatri Dergisi, 2009, Vol 12, Issue 3, p134
- ISSN
1302-0099
- Publication type
Article