Autism-Spectrum Quotient-Child and Autism-Spectrum Quotient-Adolescent in Chinese Population: Screening Autism Spectrum Disorder against Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Typically Developing Peers

Autor/inn/en	Wong, Patsy P. S.; Wai, Veronica C. M.; Chan, Raymond W. S.; Leung, Cecilia N. W.; Leung, Patrick W. L.
Titel	Autism-Spectrum Quotient-Child and Autism-Spectrum Quotient-Adolescent in Chinese Population: Screening Autism Spectrum Disorder against Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Typically Developing Peers
Quelle	In: Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 25 (2021) 7, S.1913-1923 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Leung, Patrick W. L.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1362-3613
DOI	10.1177/13623613211003740
Schlagwörter	Autism; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Psychometrics; Screening Tests; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Children; Test Validity; Test Reliability; Disability Identification; Adolescents; Psychopathology; Foreign Countries; Elementary School Students; Secondary School Students; Age Differences; Gender Differences; Socioeconomic Status; Hong Kong + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Psychometry; Psychometrie; Screening-Verfahren; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Child; Kind; Kinder; Testvalidität; Testreliabilität; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Psychopathologie; Ausland; Sekundarschüler; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Geschlechterkonflikt; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Hongkong
Abstract	The Hong Kong Chinese version of the Autism-Spectrum Quotient-Child and Autism-Spectrum Quotient-Adolescent were examined for their psychometric properties and specificity on screening autism spectrum disorder against attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. This study recruited three groups of participants: typically developing children; children with autism spectrum disorder and children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Both the Autism-Spectrum Quotient questionnaires demonstrated satisfactory psychometric properties in terms of internal consistency, test-retest reliability and area under receiver operating characteristics curve in discriminating the autism spectrum disorder group from the attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and typically developing groups, separately and jointly. The optimal cutoff scores for both the Autism-Spectrum Quotient questionnaires were identified to be 76, with satisfactory sensitivity and specificity, for differentiating the autism spectrum disorder group from the typically developing group and from the typically developing and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder groups combined. On the contrary, both Autism-Spectrum Quotient questionnaires could not effectively differentiate the attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder group from the typically developing group, or in other words, they did not misclassify attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder as autism spectrum disorder because of their phenotypic overlap in social difficulties. These findings supported that both the Autism-Spectrum Quotient questionnaires were not general measures of child and adolescent psychopathology, but could claim to be more specific measures of autism spectrum disorder, given their success in identifying the autism spectrum disorder group from the attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder/typically developing groups, while failing to differentiate the latter two groups. (As Provided).
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Update	2022/1/01