Autism through midlife: trajectories of symptoms, behavioral functioning, and health.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study describes change in autism symptoms, behavioral functioning, and health measured prospectively over 22 years. Most studies tracking developmental trajectories have focused on autism during childhood, although adulthood is the longest stage of the life course. A robust understanding of how autistic people change through midlife and into older age has yet to be obtained.

Methods

Using an accelerated longitudinal design with 9 waves of data, developmental trajectories were estimated from adolescence through midlife and into early old age in a community-based cohort (n = 406). The overall aim was to determine whether there were age-related increases or decreases, whether the change was linear or curvilinear, and whether these trajectories differed between t

SUBMITTER: Hong J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10623813 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature