How autistic women are aware of their body and take care of their health? Focus on menstruation cycles and gynecological care. in La Clinica terapeutica / Clin Ter. 2024 May-Jun;175(3):168-175. doi: 10.7417/CT.2024.5058.
2024
ASL Città di Torino
Tipo pubblicazione
Review
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Damato FM
Department of Anatomy Histology, Legal Medicine and Orthopaedics, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Cicinelli G
Adult Autism Centre, Mental Health Department, Local Health Unit ASL Città di Torino, Turin Italy.
Ricci S
Department of Anatomy Histology, Legal Medicine and Orthopaedics, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE: The combination of femininity and inequality is an increasingly studied in the field of social medicine, even more if the girls or women in question experience conditions of disability or neurodivergence. The onset of menstruation, menarche, constitutes a significant and transformative event in women's lives comprising a true and proper watershed in mental and reproductive health and sexual welfare. The onset of menstruation has a profound effect not just for girls but, in the case of disabled girls, for the whole family. In this scoping review, we have researched the literature in studies which consider the issue of menstruation and autism. The works in scientific literature have been selected which, in the last 5 years, investigated the issue of menstrua-tion for autistic girls and/or women. RESULTS: Selected studies, although few in number, have all equally evidenced the total lack of in-depth understanding of this theme, notwithstanding the fact that females, girls and women with autism would benefit from specialized services if these existed. Families, girls and women involved, moreover, although not experiencing menstruation per se in a negative light, note a deterioration in their condition particularly in respect of sensorial perception and the intensification of anxious depressive instances. This work highlights the need to deepen the aspects concerning the period in autistic girls/women, up to now the question appears to have been little studied, investigated in an uneven way. We propose a social medical program to improve sexual-affective knowledge and body awareness in autistic people.
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PMID : 38767074
DOI : 10.7417/CT.2024.5058
Keywords
social medicine; menstruation; gender-based medicine; autistic women; autism; Menstrual Cycle/physiology; Menarche/psychology; Menstruation/psychology; Autistic Disorder/psychology; Female; Humans;