Mood Disorder, Disrupted Sleep & Solo Caregiver – Risk Factors For Hospitalization For Youth With Autism

Mood disorders, disrupted sleep, and living with a solo caregiver are the most significant non-autism-related risk factors for hospitalization due to behavioral health crisis among youth with autism. Hospitalization risk factors related to autism include greater severity of autism symptoms, and the degree of adaptive daily life functioning.

These findings were reported in “Predictors of Inpatient Psychiatric Hospitalization for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder” by Giulia Righi, Jill Benevides, Carla Mazefsky, Matthew Siegel, Stephen Sheinkopf, and Eric Morrow, for the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Inpatient Research Collaborative. The researchers analyzed data from two large prospective, naturalistic . . .