Table 2.
Autism-Europe survey responses for access to COVID-19 health and social care services for people with autism. Data are numbers (%)
| Overall response | Autistic person response | Caregiver response | |||||||
| Yes | No | Unsure | Yes | No | Unsure | Yes | No | Unsure | |
| High COVID-19 risk (autistic person) | 327 (26) |
795 (63) |
133 (11) |
90 (27) |
213 (63) |
33 (10) |
237 (26) |
582 (63) |
100 (11) |
| Tested for COVID-19 | 56 (5) |
1095 (95) |
1 (0) |
13 (4) |
295 (96) |
0 (0) |
43 (5) |
800 (95) |
1 (0) |
| Accessible information—COVID-19 test | 40 (76) |
10 (19) |
3 (6) |
7 (58) |
4 (33) |
1 (8) |
33 (80) |
6 (15) |
2 (5) |
| Reasonable adjustments—COVID-19 test | 22 (39) |
31 (54) |
4 (7) |
6 (30) |
11 (55) |
3 (15) |
16 (43) |
20 (54) |
1 (3) |
| Required COVID-19 treatment | 28 (2) |
1112 (96) |
13 (1) |
7 (2) |
296 (96) |
5 (2) |
21 (2) |
816 (97) |
8 (1) |
| Difficulties accessing treatment | 12 (43) |
15 (54) |
1 (4) |
5 (71) |
2 (29) |
0 (0) |
7 (33) |
13 (62) |
1 (5) |
| Difficulties contacting treatment provider | 9 (75) |
3 (25) |
0 (0) |
3 (60) |
2 (40) |
0 (0%) | 6 (86) |
1 (14) |
0 (0) |
| Require daily or occasional support | 882 (68) |
398 (31) |
21 (2) |
184 (53) |
146 (42) |
16 (5) |
698 (73) |
252 (26) |
5 (1) |
| Usual daily support stopped | 595 (71) |
211 (25) |
31 (4) |
73 (42) |
84 (48) |
17 (10) |
522 (79) |
127 (19) |
14 (2) |
| High COVID-19 risk (support person) | 279 (33) |
409 (49) |
149 (18) |
50 (29) |
94 (54) |
30 (17) |
229 (35) |
315 (48) |
119 (18) |
| Second support person available | 247 (30) |
523 (63) |
67 (8) |
44 (25) |
107 (61) |
23 (13) |
203 (31) |
416 (63) |
44 (7) |
| Accessible information—COVID-19 public health | 421 (35) |
557 (46) |
234 (19) |
119 (36) |
117 (35) |
94 (28) |
302 (34) |
440 (50) |
140 (16) |