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Helen M. Bourke-Taylor; Monica Leo; Loredana Tirlea – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Mothers of children with disabilities can experience compromised health. Targeted interventions require investigation to determine effectiveness. Healthy Mothers Healthy Families (HMHF) is a health, wellbeing and empowerment program that addresses mothers need to protect, and or, recover their own health due to caregiving impacts. This study…
Descriptors: Mothers, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Workshops, Online Courses
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Bourke-Taylor, Helen M.; Joyce, Kahli S.; Grzegorczyn, Sarah; Tirlea, Loredana – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
Healthy Mothers Healthy Families (HMHF) is a program that educates and empowers mothers of children with disabilities to improve health behaviours. Outcomes were investigated in this study. A pre, post-test design was implemented using online questionnaires including the Health promoting activities scale (HPAS) and the Depressional anxiety stress…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Health Behavior, Mothers, Disabilities
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Lomas Mevers, Joanna; Call, Nathan A.; Gerencser, Kristina R.; Scheithauer, Mindy; Miller, Sarah J.; Muething, Colin; Hewett, Shannon; McCracken, Courtney; Scahill, Lawrence; McElhanon, Barbara O. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are often delayed in achieving bowel continence, resulting in negative outcomes. In this pilot trial, 20 children with ASD and encopresis were randomly assigned to multidisciplinary intervention for encopresis (MIE; n = 10) or a waitlist control group (n = 10). The MIE group was treated for constipation…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Behavior Modification, Intervention