Autism And Suicide

Autism And Suicide.
Children with autism may have a higher-than-average endanger of contemplating or attempting suicide, a budding study suggests. Researchers found that mothers of children with autism were much more likely than other moms to hold their child had talked about or attempted suicide: 14 percent did, versus 0,5 percent of mothers whose kids didn't have the disorder. The behavior was more hackneyed in older kids (aged 10 and up) and those whose mothers reason they were depressed, as well as kids whose moms said they were teased. An autism virtuoso not involved in the research, however, said the study had limitations, and that the findings "should be interpreted cautiously".

One why is that the information was based on mothers' reports, and that's a limitation in any study, said Cynthia Johnson, concert-master of the Autism Center at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. Johnson also said mothers were asked about suicidal and "self-harming" bullshit or behavior. "A lot of children with autism spiel about or engage in self-harming behavior. That doesn't mean there's a suicidal intent".

Still, Johnson said it makes faculty that children with autism would have a higher-than-normal risk of suicidal tendencies. It's known that they have increased rates of bust and anxiety symptoms, for example. The edition of suicidal behavior in these kids "is an important one and it deserves further study".

Autism spectrum disorders are a collect of developmental brain disorders that hinder a child's ability to communicate and interact socially. They wander from severe cases of "classic" autism to the relatively mild form called Asperger's syndrome. In the United States, it's been estimated that about one in 88 children has an autism spectrum disorder.

This week, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revised that currency to as ripe as one in 50 children. The different findings, reported in the journal Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, are based on surveys of nearly 800 mothers of children with an autism spectrum disorder, 35 whose kids were let go of autism but suffered from depression, and nearly 200 whose kids had neither disorder.

The children ranged in ripen from 1 to 16, and the autism spectrum tumult cases ranged in severity. Non-autistic children with gloom had the highest rate of suicidal talk and behavior, according to mothers - 43 percent said it was a imbroglio at least "sometimes".