Table 4 Comparison of social functioning before and after treatment in three groups of children with autism spectrum disorder.
Subject | Group | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Typical sensory integration (n = 19) | Sensory integration dysfunction (n = 35) | Sham stimulation group (n = 18) | ||||||||||
Before | After | t | P | Before | After | t | P | Before | After | t | P | |
Social awareness | 21.94 ± 2.51 | 17.33 ± 2.97 | 5.032 | < 0.00 | 21.74 ± 1.88 | 20.68 ± 1.86 | 1.736 | 0.091 | 20.75 ± 2.46 | 20.75 ± 2.32 | 0.000 | 1.000 |
Social cognition | 30.56 ± 3.35 | 25.67 ± 3.71 | 4.151 | < 0.00 | 28.68 ± 3.54 | 25.47 ± 2.76 | 3.117 | 0.004 | 28.81 ± 5.09 | 28.69 ± 5.20 | 0.069 | 0.946 |
Social communication | 55.44 ± 7.63 | 48.00 ± 7.98 | 2.862 | 0.007 | 54.53 ± 8.52 | 48.16 ± 8.64 | 2.287 | 0.028 | 53.25 ± 7.21 | 53.44 ± 6.95 | − 0.075 | 0.941 |
Social motivation | 27.94 ± 5.28 | 24.27 ± 5.27 | 2.085 | 0.045 | 28.58 ± 3.50 | 27.16 ± 3.93 | 1.176 | 0.247 | 27.50 ± 4.69 | 27.69 ± 4.61 | − 0.114 | 0.910 |
Autistic mannerisms | 30.67 ± 4.21 | 26.00 ± 4.84 | 3.085 | 0.004 | 29.26 ± 4.01 | 26.68 ± 4.16 | 1.944 | 0.060 | 30.00 ± 7.36 | 29.81 ± 7.25 | 0.073 | 0.943 |
SRS-SUM | 164.50 ± 19.13 | 139.06 ± 18.30 | 4.078 | < 0.00 | 162.79 ± 17.83 | 148.16 ± 17.45 | 2.557 | 0.015 | 160.31 ± 23.92 | 160.12 ± 22.00 | 0.023 | 0.982 |
