التوحد لدى الأطفال و علاقته ببعض العوامل : دراسة مقارنة

Abstract EN

Children with autism have increased dramatically in recent years worldwide.

Previous research suggests that 62 out of 10000 children are infected by Autism.

Researchers are trying to figure out the causes by studying different aspects of variables.

Heredity and genetics are among these factors as well as environmental affects.

However, the results have not yet shown the real causes of this disorder.

This recent study tries to find out the effect of being exposed to trauma and developing post-traumatic stress disorder of the mother during pregnancy of her Autistic child.

In addition, this study tests the relationship of Autism to some biographical variables such as the mother's age during her pregnancy, family's medical history of diseases and heredity disease.

The study recruited 26 mothers age range from 15-44 years old M= 27.50 SD= 7.29 to conduct the study by personally interviewing them.

The study was conducted by the researcher.

Scale of PTSD for Foa, et al.2016 for DSM-5 have been used in this study after being translated from English to Arabic, by the researcher.

The scale shows good validity and reliability to use in Iraq.

The scale consists of 20 items that represent four symptoms cluster of PTSD.

The results showed that there was a significant relationship between PTSD and Autism; furthermore, there were insignificant differences in all biographical variables.

The study encourages researchers in Iraq to study more about Autism and recommend the Iraq's institute to pay more attention to the pregnant women to avoid trauma and emotional stress