Analysis of the Nutrition, Self-Care Skills, and Health Professional Support in Schools of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Kabasakal, Esma; Özpulat, Funda; Bakir, Elif Pınar

doi:10.5152/fnjn.2021.19089

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“…We also explored the daily living skills among children with NDDs. Our results show that most children with NDDs (88%) had low or below-average daily living skills, similar to another study that reported a lack of self-care skills among 82.9% of school-aged children with ASD [ 66 ]. In this sample, most of the children required assistance with most domains of daily living skills (DLS), with bathing, upper body dressing, and toileting requiring the highest level of assistance, followed by grooming, lower body dressing, and eating.…”

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Findings of a Multidisciplinary Assessment of Children Referred for Possible Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Insights from a Retrospective Chart Review Study

Alenezi

Alkhiri²,

Hassanin

et al. 2022

Behavioral Sciences

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Children with ASD have a wide spectrum of functional deficits in multiple neurodevelopmental domains. A multidisciplinary team assessment (MDT) is required to assess those deficits to help construct a multimodal intervention plan. This is a retrospective chart review of the assessment for children who were referred for an assessment of potential neurodevelopmental disorders. We reviewed 221 participants’ charts from January 2019 to January 2020. The mean age of the children was 7.95 ± 3.69, while the mean age of the fathers and mothers was 37.31 ± 8.57 and 31.95 ± 6.93, respectively. Consanguinity was as high as 37.9% for the referred children with developmental delay who were first-degree related, and 13.2% of the parents were second-degree relatives. Approximately 26.6% of children had a family history of mental illness in first-degree relatives. ASD was the most commonly reported diagnosis post-assessment, and ADHD was the most common reported comorbidity at 64.3% and 88.5%, respectively. The MDT findings showed that 58% of children required moderate or higher assistance with toileting, 79.2% were unable to answer yes/no questions, and 86.8% were unable to understand “wh” questions. Only 26% of the nonverbal children had average IQ testing results, and 31% of verbal children did. In conclusion, the mean age of the children when assessed was above that recommended for early screening and intervention. An increased paternal and maternal age was noticeable. Consanguinity and a family history of mental disorders in first-degree relatives were high, attesting to a possible genetic risk.

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Findings of a Multidisciplinary Assessment of Children Referred for Possible Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Insights from a Retrospective Chart Review Study

Alenezi

Alkhiri²,

Hassanin

et al. 2022

Behavioral Sciences

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“…In line with the data obtained in this study, approximately half of the mothers stated that they had knowledge about the nutrition of their children with autism. Similarly, Kabasakal et al (2021) reported that two-thirds of parents with children with autism had su cient knowledge for their children with autism. In contrast to these results, Zeybek (2023) found that most of the parents did not have su cient knowledge about the nutrition of their children with autism and that parents wanted to have information about the nutrition of their children with autism.…”

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The Relationship Between Cooking and Food Preparation Skills of Mothers with Children Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Child's Eating Behaviors and Gastrointestinal Symptoms

KOÇ,

YILMAZ

2024

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Mothers have an important role in feeding children. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between the cooking and food preparation skills of mothers with children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and the child's eating behaviors and gastrointestinal symptoms. A significant negative correlation was found between the mothers' total scores on the cooking and food preparation skills and their children's eating behaviors and gastrointestinal symptoms scores. In addition, it was determined that mothers with low scores on the cooking and food preparation skills experienced more eating problems such as food refusal and autism-specific behaviors and gastrointestinal symptoms such as abdominal pain, reflux, diarrhea, indigestion and constipation in their children with autism. It was found that there was a relationship between food preparation and cooking skills of mothers and eating behaviors and gastrointestinal symptoms of their children with autism.

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“…Also, in the present study, the quality of life of mothers was another important factor that could explain and predict the self-care performance of autistic children. In this regard, Kabasakal found that the problems of autistic children in doing motor and process activities have a direct effect on the quality of parents, especially mothers (Kabasakal et al 2021). Meanwhile, age and gender of autistic children were other important predictor factors for self-care performance of autistic children.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In addition, the education and occupation of mothers in this study affected the self-care performance of children. In this regard, Kabasakal stated that higher levels of maternal education and being a housewife contributed to their greater participation in taking care of the autistic child and enhancing their self-care performance (Kabasakal et al 2021).…”

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Relationship of autistic children’s self-care performance with coping and quality of life in mothers of autistic children

Mahdavi,

Cheraghi,

Khazaie

et al. 2023

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Introduction: Inability in self-care in children with autism can severely affect different aspects of mothers' lives, especially coping and quality of life. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between autistic children's self-care performance and mothers' coping and quality of life. Material and methods: This was a cross-sectional study. 110 mothers and their autistic children were selected via convenience sampling. Three questionnaires were completed by participants. Data were analyzed by SPSS software version 16. Results: There was a strong and direct correlation between self-care performance and coping of mothers and mothers' quality of life (p < 0.001). The variables of coping, quality of life, autistic child's age and gender, number of siblings, level of function, mothers' education and job predicted approximately 70.65% of self-care performance variation. Conclusions: Children with autism had fairly good self-care performance, which had a positive effect on adaptation and consequently quality of life of their mothers. Self-care performance promotes the coping and quality of life in mothers of children with autism. Therefore, health officials and policymakers are recommended to use the findings of this study to increase coping and quality of life in these mothers, improve their self-care performance, and pay attention to this point in clinical practice.

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Analysis of the Nutrition, Self-Care Skills, and Health Professional Support in Schools of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Cited by 4 publications

References 26 publications

Findings of a Multidisciplinary Assessment of Children Referred for Possible Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Insights from a Retrospective Chart Review Study

Findings of a Multidisciplinary Assessment of Children Referred for Possible Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Insights from a Retrospective Chart Review Study

The Relationship Between Cooking and Food Preparation Skills of Mothers with Children Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Child's Eating Behaviors and Gastrointestinal Symptoms

Relationship of autistic children’s self-care performance with coping and quality of life in mothers of autistic children

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