Anne Longo, Dan Gilmore, Jennifer Garvin, J Madison Hyer, Daniel Coury, Christopher Hanks, Susan Moffatt-Bruce, Amy Hess, Brittany N Hand
BACKGROUND: Healthcare independence refers to someone's ability to assume responsibility for their own health and complete tasks like taking medication as prescribed or scheduling healthcare appointments. Prior studies have shown that autistic people tend to need more support with healthcare tasks than people with other chronic conditions. We sought to identify modifiable and non-modifiable factors linked with healthcare independence among autistic adults. METHOD: We conducted a cross-sectional survey to examine how executive functioning skills, restrictive and repetitive behaviors, gender, education, and age were linked with healthcare independence among this population...
July 2022: Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders