The Lived Experiences of Parents Who Have Children Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study examines the lived experience of parents who have a child diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The rise in the number of children diagnosed with ASD means that more parents may be adversely affected. This study chose a descriptive phenomenological design to study the phenomena around the lived experiences of these parents. This study recruited ten Canadian participants. Inclusion criteria for being selected were that the participant needed to be over the age of eighteen and the child needed to have a formal diagnosis of ASD by a health care professional. The researcher collected data through a semi-structured interview, in which participants were audio recorded. The data were processed through the software NVivo to generate transcripts. Four themes emerged from the data: participants felt a lack of support from informal and formal supports; grief over their child’s diagnosis; the stigma around the diagnosis; and poor mental health. This study is important as it can aid clinicians, social workers, and other health professionals to better support parents who have children with ASD, as the research provides deeper insight into the lived experience of parents who have children diagnosed with ASD.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".