children autistic are more at risk of running away or wandering, depending on the results of a study presented at the Réunion des Pediatric Academic Societies and published on the Eurekalert website. An increased risk for this population which tends not to realize the danger.
Researchers at the Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New York (USA) examined data from a large survey (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Survey) of more than 1,420 children aged 6 to 17 with autism spectrum (ASD). They observed that more than a third of them had wandered away from home at least once in the past 12 months. However, this population is at risk of danger.
“Runaway or wandering, children with mental disorders autism spectrum are at greater risk of serious injury and even premature death once they are away from adult supervision,” said Andrew Adesman, chief of developmental pediatrics at New York’s Cohen Children’s Medical Center and principal investigator of the studies.
Increase prevention among at-risk populations
L’autism is indeed a PDD, a pervasive developmental disorder. It is characterized by difficulties in communicating, poor social interactions and repetitive and stereotyped behaviors. Within PDD, we find according to the international classification, infantile autism, atypical autism, Asperger’s syndrome or Rett’s syndrome. The National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm) estimates that 100,000 young people under the age of 20 suffer from pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) in France and that infantile autism affects approximately 30,000 of them. between them.
“As the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders in the United States continues to rise, there is a need to better understand the behaviors that may compromise the safety and well-being of these children,” said research assistant Bridget Kiely in the Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Division and lead author of the study “Therefore identifying the children most likely to ‘run away’ and strengthening their monitoring appears here as a new priority in the management of developmental disorders. autism spectrum “.
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