Benefits of residential immersive life skills programs: a prospective study of autonomy and self-efficacy gains and sex differences in youth with disability.

Youth's autonomy improves following participation in Residential Immersive Life Skills programs.Over time, improvements in youth autonomy may lead to improvements in self-efficacy.It is important to measure gains over time as beneficial change increase over time.More male participants may experience outcome change in autonomy than female participants.Urgency for change and personal needs/priorities may contribute to growth experiences.