Predictors of Inpatient Psychiatric Hospitalization for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder

• Main Authors: Benevides, J. (Author), Beresford, C. (Author), Best, C. (Author), Bowen, K. (Author), Dechant, B. (Author), Erickson, C. (Author), Flis, T. (Author), for the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Inpatient Research Collaborative (ADDIRC) (Author), Gabriels, R.L (Author), Gastgeb, H. (Author), Geer, A. (Author), Hagopian, L. (Author), Handen, B. (Author), Kaplan, D. (Author), Klever, A. (Author), Lubetsky, D. (Author), Lubetsky, M. (Author), MacKenzie, K. (Author), Mazefsky, C. (Author), McGonigle, J. (Author), McGuire, K. (Author), McNeil, F. (Author), Meservy, Z. (Author), Montrenes, J. (Author), Morrow, E.M (Author), Palka, T. (Author), Pedapati, E. (Author), Pedersen, K.A (Author), Peura, C. (Author), Pierri, J. (Author), Righi, G. (Author), Rogers, C. (Author), Rossman, B. (Author), Ruberg, J. (Author), Sannar, E. (Author), Santangelo, S.L (Author), Sheinkopf, S.J (Author), Siegel, M. (Author), Small, C. (Author), Stuckey, N. (Author), Troen, B. (Author), Tylenda, B. (Author), Verdi, M. (Author), Williams, D. (Author), Williams, J. (Author), Wink, L. (Author)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Springer New York LLC 2018
• Subjects: adaptive behavior; adolescent; Adolescent; age; anxiety disorder; Article; autism; Autism inpatient collection (AIC); Autism spectrum disorder; Autism Spectrum Disorder; caregiver; case control study; Case-Control Studies; child; Child; Child, Preschool; Children and adolescents; complication; compulsion; disease severity; disruptive behavior; endocrine disease; ethnicity; family functioning; family income; family size; female; Female; genotype; hospital patient; hospitalization; Hospitalization; household income; human; Humans; Inpatient psychiatric hospitalization; Inpatients; intellectual impairment; major clinical study; male; Male; marriage; mental disease; Mental Disorders; mental health care; mental patient; mood disorder; outpatient; phenotype; preschool child; priority journal; prospective study; seizure; socialization; statistics and numerical data; tooth disease; young adult; Young Adult
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 Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is associated with significant healthcare expenditures and a greater utilization of psychiatric health services. High utilization may not be evenly distributed across individuals with ASD. The objective of this study was to identify individual and family characteristics that increase the risk of psychiatric hospitalization. Naturalistic study of two age- and gender-matched ASD cohorts, inpatients enrolled in the Autism Inpatient Collection (AIC) and outpatients enrolled in the Rhode Island Consortium of Autism Research and Treatment (RI-CART), revealed a number of factors associated with hospitalization. Multiple logistic regression analyses revealed that adaptive functioning, ASD symptom severity, primary caregiver’s marital status, the presence of mood disorders, and the presence of sleep problems independently increased the risk of psychiatric hospitalization. © 2017, Springer Science+Business Media New York.