ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2026
Developing an Inventory of Workplace Stress Coping Strategies Among Autistic Adults: A Grounded Delphi Study.
Article in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundStress levels are often elevated among autistic people, a pattern that also extends to the workplace. Effective coping strategies can reduce the negative impact of stress on work retention and overall wellbeing. However, the unique coping strategies of autistic people might not be represented in available inventories used for assessing coping styles such as the Brief COPE.
objectiveThe aim of this study is to capture coping strategies applied by autistic adults at work and develop a pilot version of a coping inventory.
methodsIn a participatory, grounded Delphi method study we assessed coping strategies connected to work stress among autistic adults. Both quantitative (Brief COPE) and qualitative feedback of five autistic individuals and six professionals working with autistic employees was analyzed and continuously fed back in an iterative process.
resultsAutistic participants and professionals described 21 categories of stress management strategies for autistic employees that we clustered into the domains autism-specific coping strategies and the two existing Brief COPE domains emotion-oriented strategies and problem-oriented strategies.
conclusionsThis first draft of a coping inventory can help to assess the unique strategies autistic people use for managing stress at the workplace and may serve as the basis for a practical tool in coaching and intervention.
Indexed as
Identifiers
42667551What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.