Journal article
Co-occurring trajectories of anxiety and insistence on sameness behaviour in autism spectrum disorder.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have increased susceptibility to anxiety disorders. Variation in a common ASD symptom, insistence on sameness behaviour, may predict future anxiety symptoms.
AIMS: To describe the joint heterogeneous longitudinal trajectories of insistence on sameness and anxiety in children with ASD and to characterise subgroups at higher risk for anxiety.
Authors
Baribeau DA; Vigod S; Pullenayegum E; Kerns CM; Mirenda P; Smith IM; Vaillancourt T; Volden J; Waddell C; Zwaigenbaum L
Journal
The British Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 218, No. 1, pp. 20–27
Publisher
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Publication Date
January 2021
DOI
10.1192/bjp.2020.127
ISSN
0007-1250