'We're responsible for the diagnosis and for finding help'. The help-seeking trajectories of families of children on the autism spectrum.

This article focuses on parents' process of seeking help for their child when a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder is made or suspected. The study was conducted with 18 parents of children aged 4-10 years in Quebec (Canada). A trajectory-network approach was applied in order to carry out an in-depth analysis of family help-seeking trajectories based on the relationships mobilised (or neglected) over time and on life course events that may have precipitated (or hindered) help-seeking actions.

[The impact of autism on the life of parents].

The aim of this paper is to explore the stress and the psychological distress faced by parents of children living with different types of disability. Its main focus is on parents of children with autism. The first part describes the stress factors faced by parents of children with disabilities and the second, the particularities of the stress faced by parents of children with autism.

A literature review on integrated perinatal care.

Context: The perinatal period is one during which health care services are in high demand. Like other health care sub-sectors, perinatal health care delivery has undergone significant changes in recent years, such as the integrative wave that has swept through the health care industry since the early 1990s.

Purpose: The present study aims at reviewing scholarly work on integrated perinatal care to provide support for policy decision-making.

Considering a simple strategy for detection of women at risk of psychological distress after childbirth.

Background: Postpartum depression is a common, severe, yet often undetected condition. Between 10 and 15 percent of new mothers suffer from depressive disorders in the first year after childbirth. The objective of this study was to investigate whether asking women questions about their daily life constituted a useful strategy to detect women at risk of developing psychological distress after childbirth.

Psychological distress one year after childbirth: a cross-cultural comparison between France, Italy and Quebec.

Background: The aim of this study was to compare rates of psychological distress, one year after childbirth, between women living in France, Italy and Quebec (Canada).

Methods: Analysis was performed for a sample of 1663 mothers of one-year-old children. Psychological distress rates, measured by the General Health Questionnaire and a measure of psychotropic drug use, were compared in bivariate and multivariate analysis.