Title |
The Cost of Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Published in |
PLOS ONE, September 2014
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DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0106552 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Chiara Horlin, Marita Falkmer, Richard Parsons, Matthew A. Albrecht, Torbjorn Falkmer |
Abstract |
A diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorders is usually associated with substantial lifetime costs to an individual, their family and the community. However, there remains an elusive factor in any cost-benefit analysis of ASD diagnosis, namely the cost of not obtaining a diagnosis. Given the infeasibility of estimating the costs of a population that, by its nature, is inaccessible, the current study compares expenses between families whose children received a formal ASD diagnosis immediately upon suspecting developmental atypicality and seeking advice, with families that experienced a delay between first suspicion and formal diagnosis. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Japan | 26 | 21% |
United Kingdom | 9 | 7% |
Canada | 6 | 5% |
Australia | 3 | 2% |
United States | 3 | 2% |
Taiwan | 1 | <1% |
Comoros | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 73 | 60% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 115 | 94% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 2% |
Scientists | 3 | 2% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | <1% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United States | 3 | <1% |
Australia | 2 | <1% |
Brazil | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 322 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Student > Master | 56 | 17% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 41 | 13% |
Researcher | 40 | 12% |
Student > Bachelor | 33 | 10% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 20 | 6% |
Other | 51 | 16% |
Unknown | 87 | 27% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Psychology | 71 | 22% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 49 | 15% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 26 | 8% |
Social Sciences | 24 | 7% |
Neuroscience | 13 | 4% |
Other | 47 | 14% |
Unknown | 98 | 30% |