Abstract
Background: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has increased dramatically in the last two decades in the whole world. ASD hampers child’s and their parent’s quality of participation in everyday life. This study examined socio-demographic status of ASD children and their parents in Dhaka city, Bangladesh.Methodology: This is a descriptive type of crosssectional study. Total 44 parents of Autistic children were interviewed, excluding 9 non respondent parents. We collected data by using self-administered questionnaires. Data was analyzed in SPSS-16.Results: Majority (52.3%) ASD children were within 11-15 years, 75% of them had 2-4 siblings and 95.5% of them had no health insurance for themselves or their parents. About parents of ASD children, majority (34.1%) were between 41-50 years old, 90.9% of the participants were mother, 90.9% were married, 79.5% parent lives in a nuclear family, 75% of them were unemployed and most (29.5%) of them are with medium education (HSC). However, male female ratio of ASD children was 2.05:1 in our study.Conclusion:The findings from this study indicated that parents of children with ASD are with medium education. They are unemployed and with no medical insurance either for themselves or for their children. Again, abetter study design is needed in future to collect gender of all selected ASD population.International Journal of Human and Health Sciences Vol. 04 No. 01 January’20 Page : 36-40
Highlights
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder with lack of social interaction, verbal and non-verbal communication and repetitive behavior
Total 53 parents were selected.[9] of them were non-respondent.We interviewed with the parents of Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosed childrenin the special school, when they came to drop their child to school or to pick up their child
In this study, most of the ASD children (52.3%) were within 11-15 years, 75% of them had 2-4 siblings and 95.5% of them had no health insurance
Summary
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder with lack of social interaction, verbal and non-verbal communication and repetitive behavior. The term of ‘autistic’ sometimes referred to as ‘autism spectrum disorder’, ASD1,2,3 It has the common symptoms such as impaired communication, diffi culties in social interaction and individual patterns of behavior, poor sleep and motor skill (MS) deficits[4]. In the 1990s, prevalence rate was 1 in 2500 children and later 1 in 10006 This may due to either communicable disease are on main focus at that time or in these last few decades ASD prevalence is increased.In Bangladesh 2013 pilot study, utilizing community health workers, has found prevalence of all kinds of neurodevelopmental disability is 7.1%. ASD hampers child’s quality of participation in everyday life[7,8], which eventually hampers parent’s physical, mental and social health. These children will often require specialized schooling. Abetter study design is needed in future to collect gender of all selected ASD population
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