title: [Measurements of stress and family impact in the parents of children with autism spectrum disorders before and after taking part in a training programme].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The presence of a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the family causes an overall impact on parents and siblings manifested in a significant increase in stress.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To analyze whether the implementation of a specific school of families for parents of people with ASD has a positive effect in the family impact, specifically in the stress perception and skills of parents who have children with ASD.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 27 parents having children with ASD participated in a school of families from which 13 of them filled a questionnaire of family impact before and after attending the training. Frequency and comparison analysis were carried out through the Wilcoxon interval test.
  
  
  RESULTS
  After the following of the school of families, improvement tendencies were shown regarding the decrease of parent's stress, as regards the perception about their answers on their son's behaviors, and significantly, in the assessment of the quality of the time shared among parents and typically developing siblings.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is necessary to implement research programs with bigger samples aimed at being more precise on the influence of the specific training in stress for parents. The idea of developing training programs for families with ASD children is recommended for the different services that support this population as a way of helping in the decrease of stress.
authors.affiliation: Centro DELETREA, Madrid, Spain. deletrea@telefonica.net
authors.forename: Raquel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ayuda-Pascual
authors.forename: María
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Llorente-Comi
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Martos-Pérez
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rodriguez-Bausá
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Olmo-Remesal
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D002648:Child; D002659:Child Development Disorders, Pervasive / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D004493:Education; D004505:Education, Nonprofessional / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004644:Emotions; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology; D011340:Problem Solving; D012801:Sibling Relations; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires