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- Title
Brief Report: Best Discriminators for Identifying Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder at an 18-Month Health Check-Up in Japan.
- Authors
Kamio, Yoko; Haraguchi, Hideyuki; Stickley, Andrew; Ogino, Kazuo; Ishitobi, Makoto; Takahashi, Hidetoshi
- Abstract
To determine the best discriminative items for identifying young children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), we conducted a secondary analysis using longitudinal cohort data that included the Japanese version of the 23-item modified checklist for autism in toddlers (M-CHAT-JV). M-CHAT-JV data at 18 months of age and diagnostic information evaluated at age 3 or later from 1851 Japanese children was used to isolate six highly discriminative items. Using data from two different community samples (n = 1851, n = 665) these items were shown to have comparable psychometric values with those of the full version. Our results suggest that these items might work as a short form screener for early identification of ASD in primary care settings where there are time constraints on screening.
- Subjects
JAPAN; DIAGNOSIS of autism; CONFIDENCE intervals; MEDICAL screening; PRIMARY health care; PROBABILITY theory; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICS; DATA analysis; SECONDARY analysis; STATISTICAL reliability; RECEIVER operating characteristic curves; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; CHILDREN
- Publication
Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, 2015, Vol 45, Issue 12, p4147
- ISSN
0162-3257
- Publication type
Report
- DOI
10.1007/s10803-015-2527-1