Validation of the Social Communication Questionnaire in a Population Cohort of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Autor/inn/en	Chandler, Susie; Charman, Tony; Baird, Gillian; Simonoff, Emily; Loucas, Tom; Meldrum, David; Scott, Mimi; Pickles, Andrew
Titel	Validation of the Social Communication Questionnaire in a Population Cohort of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Quelle	In: Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 46 (2007) 10, S.1324 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0890-8567
Schlagwörter	Educational Needs; Autism; Child Health; Measures (Individuals); Foreign Countries; Questionnaires; Validity; Interpersonal Communication; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Diagnostic Tests; Scores + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Educational need; Bildungsbedarf; Autismus; Messdaten; Ausland; Fragebogen; Gültigkeit; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Diagnostic test; Diagnostischer Test
Abstract	Objective: To examine the properties of the Social Communication Questionnaire (SCQ) in a population cohort of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and in the general population. Method: SCQ data were collected from three samples: the Special Needs and Autism Project (SNAP) cohort of 9- to 10-year-old children with special educational needs with and without ASD and two similar but separate age groups of children from the general population (n = 411 and n = 247). Diagnostic assessments were completed on a stratified subsample (n = 255) of the special educational needs group. A sample-weighting procedure enabled us to estimate characteristics of the SCQ in the total ASD population. Diagnostic status of cases in the general population samples were extracted from child health records. Results: The SCQ showed strong discrimination between ASD and non-ASD cases (sensitivity 0.88, specificity 0.72) and between autism and nonautism cases (sensitivity 0.90, specificity 0.86). Findings were not affected by child IQ or parental education. In the general population samples between 4% and 5% of children scored above the ASD cutoff including 1.5% who scored above the autism cutoff. Although many of these high-scoring children had an ASD diagnosis, almost all (~90%) of them had a diagnosed neurodevelopmental disorder. Conclusions: This study confirms the utility of the SCQ as a first-level screen for ASD in at-risk samples of school-age children. [This study was partially funded by the Department of Health, United Kingdom.] (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10