Insights into communication differences of autistic children and their parents’ emotional state
The researchers explored how communication differences among autistic children shape the emotional wellbeing of their parents. Parents in Gujranwala were recruited purposively with support from a child psychologist and Helping Hands for Differentiable Kids.
Semi-structured interviews invited parents to describe communication barriers, anxiety and distress, coping strategies, family effects, and the forms of support they found useful. The article was published open access in the Advance Social Science Archive Journal.
Where Evidano fit
The paper describes a sequential workflow. Atlas.ti was used to create and organize target codes. Those codes were then provided to Evidano, which grouped related material into candidate themes. Researchers assessed the output, merged duplicate themes, and clarified ambiguous labels.
This makes the case different from a fully automated thematic analysis. Evidano operated after an initial coding stage and before final theme refinement, with the researchers making the final structural decisions.
What the study found
The article reports four major themes. The first describes communication barriers, including difficulty understanding needs, speech clarity, delayed or limited response, gestures, silence, and differences in communication style.
The second theme covers parental anxiety and emotional distress. Parents described frustration, repetition, anger, worry, depression, medication, and effects on everyday life.
The third addresses coping and support: efforts to communicate more effectively, mood-management strategies, professional or school support, hope, acceptance, and religious faith.
The fourth connects these patterns to wider family life and the need for specialized care and counseling. The study argues that support should address parents’ emotional health alongside children’s communication needs.
Why this case is useful
This study shows Evidano operating with another qualitative-data-analysis system rather than replacing it. Atlas.ti supported initial coding; Evidano helped organize codes into themes; and researchers refined the output.
For teams migrating gradually from traditional CAQDAS or combining human and AI-assisted steps, the workflow is concrete and easy to understand.
Limits and responsible interpretation
The paper does not report an intercoder-reliability statistic or a formal comparison of Atlas.ti and Evidano outputs. The defensible claim is that the tools were used sequentially in a human-refined thematic workflow, not that the study validated either platform’s accuracy.
How Evidano fit the workflow
- 1Collect in-depth accounts
Parents described day-to-day communication, emotional pressure, and coping in semi-structured interviews.
- 2Create initial codes in Atlas.ti
The team organized meaningful segments around the research questions.
- 3Group codes in Evidano
Related codes were clustered into anticipated themes.
- 4Refine the structure manually
Duplicate themes were merged and unclear themes were rewritten.
- 5Return to participant evidence
The final tables linked themes and subthemes with interview extracts.
Atlas.ti codes fed straight into Evidano’s theme development.
Duplicate themes were merged and ambiguous labels clarified by hand.
Final themes and subthemes were reported with interview extracts.
The paper names both tools and the order they were used in.