Epidemiological study on the involvements of environmental factors and allergy in child mental health using the Autism Screening Questionnaire

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• 作者：Aki Shibata^a ; Yoshiaki Hitomi^a ; Yasuhiro Kambayashi^a ; Yuri Hibino^a ; Masami Yamazaki^a ; Junko Mitoma^a ; Hiroki Asakura^a ; Koichi Hayashi^b ; Naoto Otaki^b ; Takiko Sagara^c ; Hiroyuki Nakamura^a ; ^{hiro-n@po.incl.ne.jp}
• 关键词：Autism spectrum disorder ; Questionnaire ; Subscale ; Allergy ; Birth order ; Early screening
• 刊名：Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：January, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：7
• 期：1
• 页码：132-140
• 全文大小：240 K

文摘

Although autism is now recognized as being very common () and as developing due to not only genetic but also environmental factors, there is insufficient epidemiological evidence on the relationship between autism and allergy. In this study, therefore, we attempted to clarify the association of environmental factors with autism and allergy using a population-based epidemiological study and to propose a newly developed screening method with improved validity by determining the relationship between ASD (autism spectrum disorders) subscales. We examined the association among autistic score from the Autism Screening Questionnaire (ASQ Japanese version), living environment factors, and allergic disease in 1407 children aged 3-5 years old. We recognized that children with higher ASD score have significantly higher prevalence of nasal allergy and associated with significantly factors of boy and first in terms of birth order and maternal smoking. In addition, nasal allergy were observed to be associated with ¡°reciprocal social interaction¡±, ¡°language and communication¡±, and ¡°repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behaviors¡± as subscales of ASD. These results suggest that autism in children were closely related to allergy and environmental factors. Investigation of allergy symptoms in addition to subscale of ASD seem to enable more efficient screening of autism tendency at an earlier stage.