Analysis on influencing factors for childhood autism onset in Bijie City
10.3969/j.issn.1671-8348.2025.09.015
- VernacularTitle:毕节市儿童孤独症发病的影响因素分析
- Author:
Congfang WAN
1
;
Ya ZHONG
;
Li YUAN
;
Miao SONG
Author Information
1. 毕节医学高等专科学校,贵州毕节 551700
- Keywords:
autism in children;
incidence rate;
influencing factors;
preventive measures
- From:
Chongqing Medicine
2025;54(9):2085-2092,2097
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To investigate the influencing factors of autism spectrum disorder(ASD)among the children in Bijie City.Methods A total of 195 children diagnosed as ASD in Bijie City from June 2022 to August 2023 were selected as the case group and 201 healthy children extracted from the urban and rural kin-dergartens by the simple random sampling survey method served as the control group.The guardians of the children were surveyed by using a self-designed questionnaire.The logistic regression was adopted to analyze the influencing factors of childhood ASD onset.Results The univariate analysis results revealed that the differences in the sex,age,residential environment,maternal education level,maternal occupation,maternal age at pregnancy,maternal prenatal depression,health status at birth,feeding mode,early health status after birth,primary caregiver before 1 year old,left-behind experience before 3 years old,parenting attitude towards discipline and parental disciplinary severity between the two groups had statistical significance(P＜0.05).The multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that the child's sex,age,residential environment,mater-nal education level,maternal occupation,annual household income,maternal age at pregnancy,health status in neonatal period,primary caregiver beforel year old and left-behind experience before 3 years old were the inde-pendent influencing factors for ASD occurrence(P＜0.05).The specific manifestations included the boys,aged 5-6 years old,living in urban areas,mothers with a junior high school education or below,mothers as full-time housewives,family average annual income＜50 000 Yuan,mother pregnancy age＜20 years old,dyspnea or suffocation at birth,mainly taking care by others before 1 year old,and experience of being a left-behind child before 3 years old,which were more likely to develop autism.Conclusion The onset of childhood ASD is the results of multiple factors concurrent action.
