Parent attitudes towards predictive testing for autism in the first year of life.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Emerging biomarker technologies (e.g., MRI, EEG, digital phenotyping, eye-tracking) have potential to move the identification of autism into the first year of life. We investigated the perspectives of parents about the anticipated utility and impact of predicting later autism diagnosis from a biomarker-based test in infancy.

Methods

Parents of infants were interviewed to ascertain receptiveness and perspectives on early (6-12 months) prediction of autism using emerging biomarker technologies. One group had experience parenting an older autistic child (n=30), and the other had no prior autism parenting experience (n=25). Parent responses were analyzed using inductive qualitative coding methods.

Results

Almost all parents in both groups were interested in pre

SUBMITTER: Washington AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11330042 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature