Kathryn Fuller, Matthew D Linden, Tracey Lee-Pullen, Clayton Fragall, Wendy N Erber, Kimberley J Röhrig
An active, collaborative approach to learning skills in flow cytometry
Advances in physiology education
recent literature suggested individuals autism spectrum disorder asd autistic traits ats would likely encounter traumatic events lifetime develop posttraumatic stress disorder ptsd however nature relationship yet fully elucidated aims study evaluate relationship ptsd investigate specific autistic dimension associated trauma stressrelated symptoms total 68 subjects asd 64 healthy controls hcs assessed adult autism subthreshold spectrum adas spectrum trauma loss spectrum tals questionnaires statistical analyses included mannwhitney u test chisquare test calculation spearmans coefficients logistic regression analysis patients significant reported 30 rate ptsd higher tals total domain scores hcs among ptsd found instead significant positive correlations reported adas spectrum talssr scores whole sample adas spectrum total scores statistically predictive presence ptsd high scores adas spectrum inflexibility adherence routine restrictive interest rumination domains identified positive predictors probable ptsd compared hcs subjects significant likely present symptoms ptsd particular related ruminative thinking narrow interests sensorial reactivity would seem predict presence posttraumatic stress symptomatology