Community-based service use in preschool children with autism spectrum disorder and associations with insurance status.

ABSTRACT:

Background

ASD-related services can improve outcomes for children, but less is known about service outside of school settings during preschool age. We aimed to describe amount and category of community-based service use among 3-5-year-old children with ASD and examine differences by health insurance.

Methods

We used cross-sectional data on 792 children with ASD diagnoses in the Study to Explore Early Development, a community-based study of neurodevelopment with enrollment between 2012-2016. Mothers reported current child service use and insurance status at study entry. We used log-Poisson and logistic regression to compare service use by insurance group.

Results

Nearly 40% of children were not receiving community-based services at study entry. Children with public ins

SUBMITTER: Rubenstein E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7430759 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature