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| 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
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 123 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 25 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 8 | 7% |
| Canada | 7 | 6% |
| Australia | 3 | 2% |
| United States | 3 | 2% |
| Taiwan | 1 | <1% |
| Comoros | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 75 | 61% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 116 | 94% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 2% |
| Scientists | 3 | 2% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | <1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 332 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | <1% |
| Australia | 2 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 326 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 56 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 41 | 12% |
| Researcher | 40 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 33 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 20 | 6% |
| Other | 55 | 17% |
| Unknown | 87 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 71 | 21% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 49 | 15% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 26 | 8% |
| Social Sciences | 24 | 7% |
| Neuroscience | 13 | 4% |
| Other | 51 | 15% |
| Unknown | 98 | 30% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 102. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 September 2023.
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#420,233
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Outputs from PLOS ONE
#5,889
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#3,825
of 250,933 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#138
of 5,057 outputs
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