Table 3.
Means (standard deviations for the parents self-reports of health, and the Pearson correlations between parent, child, and diagnostic factors and parents’ self-reports of health (HADS-A = anxiety; HADS-D = depression; GHQ = health relayed quality of life; QRS = parenting stress).
| HADS-A | HADS-D | GHQ | QRS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | 10.67 | 9.59 | 29.98 | 26.77 |
| (SD) | (3.95) | (3.37) | (19.31) | (9.13) |
| Parent age | −0.064 | 0.112 | −0.255 * | −0.041 |
| Autism Severity | 0.019 | −0.107 | 0.002 | 0.205 * |
| Intellectual Functioning | −0.067 | 0.117 | 0.015 | −0.318 *** |
| Verbal Functioning | −0.162 * | 0.092 | −0.063 | −0.384 *** |
| Child age | −0.066 | 0.021 | −0.262 ** | −0.117 |
| Child age at diagnosis | 0.046 | 0.080 | −0.104 * | −0.226 * |
| Child age at first problem | 0.015 | 0.005 | 0.131 | −0.003 |
| Time to diagnosis | −0.003 | 0.053 | −0.257 * | −0.308 *** |
| Duration of diagnosis | −0.048 | 0.042 | −219 * | −0.306 *** |
| Number of professionals | 0.421 *** | −0.056 | 0.178 * | 0.068 |
* p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01; *** p < 0.001.