Table 3.

Thematic analysis of “Other stressor” free text responses

Overarching theme	Frequency (%)	Sub-theme	Frequency	Examples
Caregiver stressor	47 (25.3)	Financial	4	• “Insurance doesn't cover services, paying out of pocket”
		Health	9	• “Inavalibility of prescriptions” • “Keeping them from being exposed”
		Concerns for other children	7	• “Sibling 3 years old also home” • “Second child is showing signs of ASD now as sell”
		Parental stressors	31	• “Having to work at the same time as having to keep my son busy with learning activities” • “Losing my job because I have no one to watch our two children”
Person with ASD stressor	77 (41.4)	Behavior concerns	16	• “Regression and aggression” • “he wont stop eating”
		Isolation	21	• “Family being together in a small apartment all day, every day is hard for even non-ASD family members” • “He needs the interaction with the people in his office”
		Change in routine	44	• “He is in a specialized group home and on no kind of schedule.” • “No current routine need one set up!!”
Service stressor	66 (35.5)	School absence	26	• “Just trying to work from home and figure out how to continue her education as best as I can without being a teacher” • “Her education slipping and becoming further behind”
		ABA or therapeutic concerns	44	• "Lack of services (no ABA, no speech, no special education in person)" • “Missing essential therapies due to distancing”
		Unclassifiable	13	• “Depression” • “Fear ‘normal’ will never return” • “Uncertainty”

Frequencies of sub-themes do not sum to the frequency of the overarching theme because each free-response can have more than one sub-theme. Syntactical errors in responses are direct verbatim from respondents