The reasons for choosing this article was the title. The title intrigued us to read more about it. The article shows the lack of transition planning and implementation. This article focuses on the perspectives of youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder and their caregivers when they go through the experiences of health care transition. The authors mentioned that there have been many past studies about children with ASD with little or no information about the stage where their health conditions are stated when they transition into adulthood. Through the heading, it is clear that for the children and their caregivers, when they transition into adulthood, they become vulnerable to various behavioral, mental and physical health problems. They also
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The HCT services are not efficiently utilized by the youth when transitioning to adulthood. 40 % of the youth are advised to go for the HCT services but in reality only 21% of the group actually receives the services. Many of the families are not in the favor of using HCT services while the American Academy of Pediatrics considers HCT a best practice for transitioning to adult oriented care and recommends the same for the families but the significant reason of the refusal still doesn’t concluded that why families are not taking benefit from the HCT …show more content…
There are many families who are not convinced by the services of Health care providers because they are not aware of what actually the role of HCT is in the transition period. This article puts light on the role of the HCT and focuses on the understanding of caregivers and youth with ASD. As it is the first research that is conducted to understand the perceptions of youth it will provide a base to the future research and a data and method to receive input from youth of ASD. However, the study shows experience of participants who were chosen irrespective of their cultural background. This suggests the findings might have been different if participants belonged to another race or culture. Therefore, the data is not generalizable. All said, as it is the first research conducted. We will recommend this article because it gives us insight, if not fully, into the minds of youth transitioning from one health care system to another. Also this provides base for future measures, precautions and procedures of transition planning and
The HCT services are not efficiently utilized by the youth when transitioning to adulthood. 40 % of the youth are advised to go for the HCT services but in reality only 21% of the group actually receives the services. Many of the families are not in the favor of using HCT services while the American Academy of Pediatrics considers HCT a best practice for transitioning to adult oriented care and recommends the same for the families but the significant reason of the refusal still doesn’t concluded that why families are not taking benefit from the HCT …show more content…
There are many families who are not convinced by the services of Health care providers because they are not aware of what actually the role of HCT is in the transition period. This article puts light on the role of the HCT and focuses on the understanding of caregivers and youth with ASD. As it is the first research that is conducted to understand the perceptions of youth it will provide a base to the future research and a data and method to receive input from youth of ASD. However, the study shows experience of participants who were chosen irrespective of their cultural background. This suggests the findings might have been different if participants belonged to another race or culture. Therefore, the data is not generalizable. All said, as it is the first research conducted. We will recommend this article because it gives us insight, if not fully, into the minds of youth transitioning from one health care system to another. Also this provides base for future measures, precautions and procedures of transition planning and