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The Development and Evaluation of an Online Healthcare Toolkit for Autistic Adults and their Primary Care Providers.


ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:The healthcare system is ill-equipped to meet the needs of adults on the autism spectrum. OBJECTIVE:Our goal was to use a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to develop and evaluate tools to facilitate the primary healthcare of autistic adults. DESIGN:Toolkit development included cognitive interviewing and test-retest reliability studies. Evaluation consisted of a mixed-methods, single-arm pre/post-intervention comparison. PARTICIPANTS:A total of 259 autistic adults and 51 primary care providers (PCPs) residing in the United States. INTERVENTIONS:The AASPIRE Healthcare toolkit includes the Autism Healthcare Accommodations Tool (AHAT)-a tool that allows patients to create a personalized accommodations report for their PCP-and general healthcare- and autism-related information, worksheets, checklists, and resources for patients and healthcare providers. MAIN MEASURES:Satisfaction with patient-provider communication, healthcare self-efficacy, barriers to healthcare, and satisfaction with the toolkit's usability and utility; responses to open-ended questions. KEY RESULTS:Preliminary testing of the AHAT demonstrated strong content validity and adequate test-retest stability. Almost all patient participants (>94 %) felt that the AHAT and the toolkit were easy to use, important, and useful. In pre/post-intervention comparisons, the mean number of barriers decreased (from 4.07 to 2.82, p?

SUBMITTER: Nicolaidis C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5023610 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The Development and Evaluation of an Online Healthcare Toolkit for Autistic Adults and their Primary Care Providers.

Nicolaidis Christina C   Raymaker Dora D   McDonald Katherine K   Kapp Steven S   Weiner Michael M   Ashkenazy Elesia E   Gerrity Martha M   Kripke Clarissa C   Platt Laura L   Baggs Amelia A  

Journal of general internal medicine 20160606 10


<h4>Background</h4>The healthcare system is ill-equipped to meet the needs of adults on the autism spectrum.<h4>Objective</h4>Our goal was to use a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to develop and evaluate tools to facilitate the primary healthcare of autistic adults.<h4>Design</h4>Toolkit development included cognitive interviewing and test-retest reliability studies. Evaluation consisted of a mixed-methods, single-arm pre/post-intervention comparison.<h4>Participants</h4>A  ...[more]

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