Parents of children with autism spectrum disorder quality of life in Jordan: a comparative study

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Table 1. Sociodemographic characteristics of parents of children with autism newborns (n = 241).

Variable	Category	ASD	Non-ASD
Age (years)	–	34.69/5.499	31.00 (7.035)
Gender	Male Female	41 (33.9%) 80 (66.1%)	29 (24%) 92 (76%)
Education level	Primary Secondary University degree Tertiary	2 (1.7%) 64 (52.9%) 51 (42.1%) 4 (3.3%)	5 (4.1%) 61 (50.4%) 52 (43.0%) 3 (2.5%)
Marital status	Single Married Divorced	1 (0.8%) 116 (95.9%) 4 (3.3%)	10 (8.3%) 102 (84.1) 19 (7.4%)
Living condition	Living alone Living with people	3 (2.5%) 118 (97.5%)	3 (2.5%) 118 (97.5%)
Employment status	Formal employment Informal employment Unemployed	16 (13.2 %) 56 (46.3 %) 49 (40.5%)	62 (51.2%) 32 (26.4%) 27 (22.3%)

ASD: Autism spectrum disorder.

Table 2. Distribution of the scores of parents of children with autism for the five domains of quality of life.

Item	Mean	Std. Deviation	Mean	Std. Deviation	p-value
Quality of mental health	21.73	2.217	27.9421	4.28427	0.001
Quality of emotions	21.06	2.367	27.56	3.96239	0.011
Quality of time management	20.35	2.452	27.8595	5.06344	0.01
Family and social quality of life	19.23	2.159	27.4711	3.72173	0.02
Public health quality	17.74	3.063	23.9587	4.27082	0.012

Table 3. Predictors for the five domains of quality of life of parents of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.

Quality domain	ASD			Non-ASD
	(B)	(Beta)	Significance	(B)	(Beta)	Significance
Public health quality (n = 241)
Age (years)	0.055	0.099	0.305	0.009	0.015	0.875
Gender	-0.797	-0.124	0.228	0.210	0.030	0.747
Education level	-1.473	-0.285	0.003	2.667	0.286	0.004
Marital status	-0.587	-0.039	0.663	-0.178	-0.007	0.945
Living condition	0.965	0.049	0.586	1.222	0.230	0.022
Employment status	-10.069	0.239	0.026	1.34	0.23	0.34
Family and social quality of life (n = 241)
Age (years)	0.003	0.007	0.949	0.066	0.124	0.189
Gender	0.319	0.070	0.527	2.848	0.329	0.001
Educational level	-0.164	-0.045	0.659	0.598	0.099	0.296
Marital status	0.017	0.002	0.987	0.907	0.112	0.251
Living condition	-0.614	-0.044	0.649	5.739	0.242	0.012
Employment status	-0.501	-0.159	0.169	-0.015	-0.003	0.974
Quality of emotions (n = 241)
Age (years)	-0.009	-0.021	842	0.057	0.101	0.281
Gender	0.033	0.007	0.952	2.808	0.305	0.001
Educational level	-0.729	-0.183	0.073	1.487	0.232	0.015
Marital status	-0.485	-0.042	0.664	1.298	0.150	0.02
Living condition	-1.398	-0.092	0.342	3.385	0.134	0.157
Employment status	-0.463	-0.134	0.345	0.298	0.061	0.543
Quality of mental health (n = 241)
Age (years)	-0.019	-0.046	0.637	0.033	0.055	0.550
Gender	0.191	0.041	0.695	1.329	0.133	0.141
Educational level	-0.423	-0.113	0.242	0.323	0.046	0.614
Marital status	-0.650	-0.059	0.514	2.565	0.093	0.310
Living condition	-3.920	-0.276	0.003	2.565	0.093	0.310
Employment status	0.518	0.160	0.143	1.394	0.261	0.008
Quality of time management at work (n = 241)
Age (years)	0.018	0.041	0.659	-0.061	-0.085	0.369
Gender	1.293	0.251	0.013	1.478	0.125	0.177
Educational level	1.500	0.363	0.000	0.767	0.093	0.325
Marital status	0.033	0.003	0.975	4.075	0.367	00.000
Living condition	-0.306	-0.020	0.825	5.003	0.154	0.104
Employment status	-0.234	-0.065	0.529	1.200	0.190	0.059

ASD: Autism spectrum disorder.