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Post-traumatic Stress Spectrum and Adult Autism Subthreshold Spectrum in Parents of Children with Epilepsy: Correlations and Gender Differences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

C. Carmassi ,
M. Corsi ,
C. Gesi ,
C.A. Bertelloni ,
V. Pedrinelli ,
G. Massimetti ,
A. Bonuccelli ,
A. Orsini  and
L. Dell’Osso
C. Carmassi
Affiliation:
Azienda Ospedaliero, Universitaria Pisana, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Pisa, Italy
M. Corsi
Affiliation:
Azienda Ospedaliero, Universitaria Pisana, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Pisa, Italy
C. Gesi
Affiliation:
Azienda Ospedaliero, Universitaria Pisana, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Pisa, Italy
V. Pedrinelli
Affiliation:
Azienda Ospedaliero, Universitaria Pisana, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Pisa, Italy
G. Massimetti
Affiliation:
Azienda Ospedaliero, Universitaria Pisana, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Pisa, Italy
A. Bonuccelli
Affiliation:
Azienda Ospedaliero, Universitaria Pisana, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Pisa, Italy
A. Orsini
Affiliation:
Azienda Ospedaliero, Universitaria Pisana, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Pisa, Italy
L. Dell’Osso
Affiliation:
Azienda Ospedaliero, Universitaria Pisana, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Pisa, Italy

Abstract

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Introduction

Data that assess the co-morbidity between post-traumatic stress symptoms and autism spectrum are scarce. Nevertheless, some authors suggested that subjects with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), due to their difficulty in understanding the codes of communication, empathy, expression, are lower resilience to traumas.

Objectives

The aim of this study was to explore in a sample of parents of children with epilepsy, the presence of correlations between the symptoms of post-traumatic stress and adult autism subthreshold spectrum.

Methods

Seventy-seven parents completed the Trauma and Loss Spectrum Self-Report (TALS-SR), specifically modified for one's son epileptic disease, and 72 parents completed the AdAS Spectrum (Adult Autism subthreshold Spectrum).

Results

Eight subjects (11.1%) presented a total score ≥45 at the AdAS Spectrum, corresponding to the satisfaction of a symptomatic ASD criteria and indicative of the Adult Autism Spectrum subthreshold. More specifically, a total score ≥45 was found in 7 (15.9%) of mothers and 1 (3.6%) of the fathers, with no statistically significant differences between the two groups (P = 0.139).

Noteworthy correlations between TALS and AdAS, emerged only in the subgroup of the fathers. In particular, a relevant number of moderate to good correlations emerged between the Domain II (reactions to the events of loss) of the TALS-SR and the AdAS Domain III (non verbal communication), Domain VI (restricted interests and ruminations) and total score.

Conclusions

Results indicate that this peculiar psychopathological model could lead to increased vulnerability to effects of the trauma, in particular in male.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-Poster Viewing: Post-traumatic stress disorder
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S721 - S722
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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