Shared Decision Making Interventions for Parents of Children on the Autism Spectrum: A Systematic and Scoping Review

Editorial reading guide · Collaboration

When a service describes a decision as shared, which steps should we look for?

The authors examine what shared decision interventions actually contain and document how few studies met their criteria.

Who was studied?

Published interventions for shared decisions with parents of autistic children; two eligible studies were identified.

Age / stage: Children younger than eighteen

Read with three questions

1. How does having only two included studies limit comparison?
2. What criteria determined which studies and settings entered the synthesis?
3. Where in the decision process could the child, the parent and the clinician express different priorities?

Keep the limits in view

Coverage depends on the databases, languages and inclusion rules used by the review. Differences among the underlying study designs limit conclusions about effects.