Effect of Covid-19 lockdown on indian children with autism

Kaur, Ramandeep; Boobna, Tamanna; Kallingal, Praseena

doi:10.1016/j.ridd.2022.104230

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“…Individuals with ASD were therefore at high risk of problems in functioning during COVID-19. These issues included aggressive behavior, self-injury, hyperactivity, problems with sleep, eating disorders, pain sensitivity, pain sensitivity, and impaired concentration [ 64 , 65 , 66 , 67 ].…”

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Psychosocial Functioning and the Educational Experiences of Students with ASD during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland

Lew-Koralewicz

2022

IJERPH

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Due to their individual developmental and learning needs, adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) benefit from a variety of educational, medical, and therapeutic services. During the COVID-19 pandemic, these services were discontinued or significantly reduced, which may have resulted in increased difficulties in coping with various areas of life. The purpose of this study was to explore how the pandemic affected the psychosocial and educational functioning of students with ASD. A qualitative, problem-focused interview method was used. The obtained material was subjected to interpretive phenomenological analysis. The study involved 10 secondary school students diagnosed with ASD. The assessment of the effects of the pandemic on the functioning of people with ASD is inconclusive. The respondents noted both negative and positive effects of lockdown. On the positive side, they were able to spend time with their family, isolate themselves from difficult social relationships and feel better. Among the negative effects, adolescents point to difficulties in emotional functioning—increased levels of stress and anxiety, as well as increased feelings of loneliness and difficulties with online education. The study showed the varied experiences of young people with autism during the pandemic, highlighting the significant need to support some of them in terms of their emotional, social and educational functioning.

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Psychosocial Functioning and the Educational Experiences of Students with ASD during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland

Lew-Koralewicz

2022

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“…When schools close during the pandemic, the lack of necessary technologies (e.g., braille readers) and services (e.g., help and support from special education teachers) at home may lead to their experiencing difficulties in participating in remote learning 39 . Studies from Egypt and India have reported that remote learning poses challenges to the caregivers of children who are intellectually challenged, as these children's attention span, impulsivity, mood swings and hyperactivity worsen post-lockdown, thus reducing their performance [149][150][151][152] . By and large, it is found to be challenging to provide remote learning to students with disabilities because the services and the number of specialised instruction hours may differ for each student 153 .…”

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“…• Egypt, and India: remote learning posed a challenge for children who are intellectually challenged (e.g., worsened attention span, and hyperactivity) [149][150][151][152] .…”

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A scoping review of the impacts of COVID-19 physical distancing measures on vulnerable population groups

Taeihagh

Tan

2023

Nat Commun

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Most governments have enacted physical or social distancing measures to control COVID-19 transmission. Yet little is known about the socio-economic trade-offs of these measures, especially for vulnerable populations, who are exposed to increased risks and are susceptible to adverse health outcomes. To examine the impacts of physical distancing measures on the most vulnerable in society, this scoping review screened 39,816 records and synthesised results from 265 studies worldwide documenting the negative impacts of physical distancing on older people, children/students, low-income populations, migrant workers, people in prison, people with disabilities, sex workers, victims of domestic violence, refugees, ethnic minorities, and people from sexual and gender minorities. We show that prolonged loneliness, mental distress, unemployment, income loss, food insecurity, widened inequality and disruption of access to social support and health services were unintended consequences of physical distancing that impacted these vulnerable groups and highlight that physical distancing measures exacerbated the vulnerabilities of different vulnerable populations.

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“…Two studies corroborate with these data, one conducted in Bangladesh with 150 children with ASD [106], and another conducted with thirty children with ASD in India [74], both of them showed that sleep disturbance during lockdown time.…”

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How the COVID-19 pandemic has affected children and adolescents’ sleep habits: a systematic review

Athanasio,

Oliveira,

Argelaz

et al. 2023

Debates em Psiquiatria

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Introduction: Sleep is a multimodal construct related to the quality of life of children and adolescents. Therefore, sleep problems might affect attention, internalizing and externalizing behaviors. During the pandemic, children were pointed as a risk group for sleep problems compared to other age groups. Objective: We aimed to conduct a systematic search in the literature, in order to investigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on sleep habits in children and adolescents, addressing changes on sleep duration, bedtime and wake-up time, risk and protective factors, and the particularities of children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders. Methods: The search was conducted in PubMed, Scopus, and Cochrane Library databases. After the full reading evaluation a total of 133 articles, comprising 234,852 participants from 45 countries, met inclusion criteria. Results: An increase in week sleep hours and delay in sleep and wake-up time were observed as well as a worse quality of sleep. Among the emerging risk factors were evaluated confinement, age, gender, previous diagnosis, screen use, and physical activities. For children with neurodevelopmental disorders, heterogeneity in methodology and sampling constraints do not allow generalizations. Conclusion: The most important problem in children and adolescents about sleep during the pandemic was not the number of hours, but the increase in disorders related to sleep and to changes in sleep rhythm. The understanding of sleep changes might shed light on long-term effects and consequences related to the pandemic and the relationship with stress and disorders, which deserves attention to rethink the youths' routines.

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Effect of Covid-19 lockdown on indian children with autism

Cited by 16 publications

References 40 publications

Psychosocial Functioning and the Educational Experiences of Students with ASD during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland

Psychosocial Functioning and the Educational Experiences of Students with ASD during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland

A scoping review of the impacts of COVID-19 physical distancing measures on vulnerable population groups

How the COVID-19 pandemic has affected children and adolescents’ sleep habits: a systematic review

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