Autism and suicide.
Children with autism may have a higher-than-average chance of contemplating or attempting suicide, a young study suggests. Researchers found that mothers of children with autism were much more likely than other moms to believe 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 plain in older kids (aged 10 and up) and those whose mothers pondering they were depressed, as well as kids whose moms said they were teased pills. An autism master not involved in the research, however, said the study had limitations, and that the findings "should be interpreted cautiously".
One saneness is that the information was based on mothers' reports, and that's a limitation in any study, said Cynthia Johnson, guide of the Autism Center at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. Johnson also said mothers were asked about suicidal and "self-harming" way or behavior. "A lot of children with autism patter about or engage in self-harming behavior sizegenix. That doesn't mean there's a suicidal intent".
Still, Johnson said it makes detect that children with autism would have a higher-than-normal risk of suicidal tendencies. It's known that they have increased rates of gloominess and anxiety symptoms, for example. The affair of suicidal behavior in these kids "is an important one and it deserves further study".
Autism spectrum disorders are a circle of developmental brain disorders that hinder a child's ability to communicate and interact socially. They break down 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 ubiquitousness to as elevated as one in 50 children. The novel 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 free and easy of autism but suffered from depression, and nearly 200 whose kids had neither disorder.
The children ranged in maturity from 1 to 16, and the autism spectrum scuffle cases ranged in severity. Non-autistic children with dent had the highest rate of suicidal talk and behavior, according to mothers - 43 percent said it was a unmanageable at least "sometimes".
