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2013

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Lack Of Father Involvement In Research On Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Maternal Parenting Stress And Family Functioning, Norah L. Johnson, Pippa Simpson Apr 2013

Lack Of Father Involvement In Research On Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Maternal Parenting Stress And Family Functioning, Norah L. Johnson, Pippa Simpson

College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has an estimated prevalence of greater than 1% of people in the US. Caring for children with ASD is stressful and challenging for parents. The purpose of the study is to understand the ramifications of the findings of a spouse/father's lack of participation for a study focused on stress and family functioning that attempted to recruit both parents of a child with ASD. The Kruskal-Wallis test compared medians of three groups of mothers of children with ASD in order to assess differences in parenting stress and family functioning discrepancy depending on their marital status and spouse …


Genomics And Autism Spectrum Disorder (Asd), Norah L. Johnson, Ellen Giarelli, Catherine E. Rice Jan 2013

Genomics And Autism Spectrum Disorder (Asd), Norah L. Johnson, Ellen Giarelli, Catherine E. Rice

College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications

Purpose: To understand the current state of the evidence regarding translation of genetics and genomics into nursing care of children with (ASD).