RESULTS
Most of the participants were mothers (66.7%), Caucasian (84.0%), and had at least 1 year of college or graduated from a university (68.0%) (see Table 1). The mean age of the participants was 40 ± 9.0 years; participants’ ages ranged from 24 to 68. Twenty-two couples participated in the study; a total of 53 families were represented in this study. Over half of the participants did not attend a parent support group (53.3%) and most parents (82.7%) had sons with autism.