2021
DOI: 10.1177/13623613211060906
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Healthcare service use patterns among autistic adults: A systematic review with narrative synthesis

Abstract: Autistic adults often experience barriers to healthcare that can cause their healthcare service use to be unique from other populations. We conducted a systematic review to gather the most recent evidence about how often autistic adults use five important healthcare services (the emergency department, hospitalization, outpatient mental health, preventive services, and primary care) compared to populations of non-autistic adults. We searched six electronic research databases for articles. Our search strategy id… Show more

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“…Overall, autistic adults also tend to use mental healthcare more than the general population and other diagnostic groups [ 13 ]. In a Canadian study, autistic adults were twice as likely as adults with other developmental disabilities, and almost 12 times as likely as adults without developmental disabilities, to see a psychiatrist in the past year [ 25 ].…”
Section: Autistic Adults’ Use Of Mental Healthcare Servicesmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Overall, autistic adults also tend to use mental healthcare more than the general population and other diagnostic groups [ 13 ]. In a Canadian study, autistic adults were twice as likely as adults with other developmental disabilities, and almost 12 times as likely as adults without developmental disabilities, to see a psychiatrist in the past year [ 25 ].…”
Section: Autistic Adults’ Use Of Mental Healthcare Servicesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Autistic adults’ access to high-quality mental healthcare is therefore of paramount importance, especially when considering they are disproportionately more likely to have co-occurring mental health conditions than the general population [ 4 •, 11 ••, 12 ]. Consistent evidence indicates that autistic adults who use mental healthcare services do so more frequently than non-autistic adults [ 13 ], but they continue to experience unmet mental healthcare needs [ 14 ••, 15 17 ]. As such, the quality of these services for autistic adults may be poor [ 14 ••, 18 ].…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Since providing (access to) appropriate healthcare is a main task of general practitioners (GPs), reducing barriers in primary healthcare for autistic people is key (Mazurek et al, 2020). Despite this need to improve healthcare for the autistic population, there is a lack of recommendations that are useful for improvement of primary healthcare, and are also based on both the needs of primary healthcare providers (HCPs) and autistic people (Gilmore et al, 2022;Walsh et al, 2021).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…3 The need for autism services, including health care services, does not end at childhood. 4 As the prevalence of children identified as autistic has increased, there is a concomitant increase of autistic adults in the Medicaid system. 5,6 Medicaid is a crucial insurance provider for autistic adults.…”
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