{"id":2114,"date":"2020-06-09T07:14:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T07:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autismwales.org\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2020-09-29T07:14:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T07:14:18","slug":"mental-health-and-wellbeing-of-autistic-adults-during-covid-19-a-research-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neurodivergencewales.org\/en\/news\/mental-health-and-wellbeing-of-autistic-adults-during-covid-19-a-research-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health and Wellbeing of Autistic Adults During Covid-19: a research study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/sites\/eazycms6797\/resource\/Mental-Health-and-Wellbeing-of-Autistic-Adults-During-Covid19.jpg\" style=\"float: right; width: 300px; height: 174px;\" \/>The coronavirus outbreak has had a huge impact on all of our lives, but for autistic people it may present particular challenges.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at <strong>Cardiff University <\/strong>want to find out how restrictions&nbsp;like social distancing are affecting the mental health and wellbeing of autistic adults.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We hope this research will help services to support autistic adults during this difficult time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who can take part?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you are aged 18 or over and living in the United Kingdom, Cardiff University&nbsp;would love to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They would like to involve both autistic people, and people without an autism diagnosis, as they&nbsp;plan to compare answers from these two groups.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do I need to do?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You will be sent a short online survey to fill out every two weeks for a period of three months.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Most of these surveys are very short and should only take 5 minutes to complete. The first survey is a bit longer and will take 20-30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you would like to take part or find out more, please follow the link below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffunipsych.eu.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_6LPCtnWLQyN572B\">https:\/\/cardiffunipsych.eu.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_6LPCtnWLQyN572B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coronavirus outbreak has had a huge impact on all of our lives, but for autistic people it may present particular challenges. &nbsp; Researchers at Cardiff University want to find out how restrictions&nbsp;like social distancing are affecting the mental health and wellbeing of autistic adults. &nbsp; We hope this research will help services to support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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