Open AccessFactors affecting quality of life of caregivers of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder
Author(s) -
Börte Gürbüz Özgür,
Hatice Aksu,
Erhan Eser
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/psychiatry.indianjpsychiatry_300_17
Subject(s) - autism , autism spectrum disorder , affect (linguistics) , childhood autism rating scale , quality of life (healthcare) , clinical psychology , psychology , checklist , intervention (counseling) , logistic regression , mann–whitney u test , test (biology) , psychiatry , medicine , paleontology , communication , cognitive psychology , psychotherapist , biology
Since autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a lifelong disease and because of its nature, the negative effects of the disease on the quality of life (QoL) of caregivers as well as patients are incontrovertible.