Effects of Early Nursing Intervention on Symptom Severity of Preschool Children with Autism
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Abstract: Symptom severity of children with autism has an impact on both the child and caregivers. This quasi-experimental research with the pretest-posttest control group design aimed to study the effect of early nursing intervention on symptom severity of preschool children with autism. The subjects were 30 out-patients preschool children with autism. The experimental group contained 15 children receiving early nursing intervention led by an advanced practice nurse. The other 15 children received usual nursing care. The early nursing intervention consisted of: play therapy, empowerment group, gross motor and fine motor developmental group, and individual telephone counseling which lasted for 4 weeks. The differences of the severity of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) symptoms before and after of the experimental and the control group were analyzed by using Wilcoxon Signed Rank test. The differences of the severity of ASD symptoms between the experimental- and the control group were analyzed by using Mann-Whitney U test. Results: Findings revealed that in the experimental group, the severity of ASD symptoms of all children was decreased statistically significant (p<.05), the differences of the severity of ASD symptoms scores before and after intervention in the experimental group were higher than in the control group. Findings suggest that early nursing intervention can be used to reduce the severity of ASD symptoms in preschool children with autism.
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