Background: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a lifelong neuro developmental condition that affects communication, social interaction, and behavior, placing significant emotional, psychological, and social demands on parents who serve as primary caregivers. Parenting a child with ASD is often associated with elevated levels of stress, challenges in coping, and reduced quality of life. These challenges may be further influenced by cultural beliefs, social expectations, and the availability of support systems.

Objective: To assess the level of stress and coping strategies of parents, to find out the relationship between the level of stress and coping strategies among parents of Autism children, to find out the association between level of stress of parents with their selected demographic variables.

Methods: The research approach adopted was a survey which was descriptive in nature survey approach was selected for pursuer to assess the level of stress and coping strategies among parents, with a sample size of 50 parents, non- probability purposive sampling technique was used for the study. For content validation of tool seven experts were chosen from various field of nursing. Their advice was taken and according to their suggestion the data collection was done. Pilot study was conducted in future Bhubaneswar School, Odisha. There 8 parents were taken for the pilot study.

Results: The all participants 82% having moderately stress and 18% having severe stress. The same participants were interviewed to know their coping abilities, the results reveals that majority (96%) participants having good coping strategies (4%) participants having average coping strategies.