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The Autism Symptom Dimensions Questionnaire: Development and psychometric evaluation of a new, open‐source measure of autism symptomatology

Overview of attention for article published in Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, January 2023
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Title
The Autism Symptom Dimensions Questionnaire: Development and psychometric evaluation of a new, open‐source measure of autism symptomatology
Published in
Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, January 2023
DOI 10.1111/dmcn.15497
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Thomas W. Frazier, Anastasia Dimitropoulos, Leonard Abbeduto, Melissa Armstrong‐Brine, Shanna Kralovic, Andy Shih, Antonio Y. Hardan, Eric A. Youngstrom, Mirko Uljarević, Quadrant Biosciences ‐ As You Are Team

Abstract

To describe the development and initial psychometric evaluation of a new, freely available measure, the Autism Symptom Dimensions Questionnaire (ASDQ). After development and revision of an initial 33-item version, informants completed a revised 39-item version of the ASDQ on 1467 children and adolescents (aged 2-17 years), including 104 with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The initial 33-item version of the ASDQ had good reliability and construct validity. However, only four specific symptom factors were identified, potentially due to an insufficient number of items. Factor analyses of the expanded instrument identified a general ASD factor and nine specific symptom factors with good measurement invariance across demographic groups. Scales showed good-to-excellent overall and conditional reliability. Exploratory analyses of predictive validity for ASD versus neurotypical and other developmental disability diagnoses indicated good accuracy for population and at-risk contexts. The ASDQ is a free and psychometrically sound informant report instrument with good reliability of measurement across a continuous range of scores and preliminary evidence of predictive validity. The measure may be a useful alternative to existing autism symptom measures but further studies with comparison of clinical diagnoses using criterion-standard instruments are needed.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 4 18%
Other 3 14%
Unspecified 1 5%
Librarian 1 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 5%
Other 6 27%
Unknown 6 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 6 27%
Neuroscience 3 14%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 14%
Sports and Recreations 1 5%
Unspecified 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 7 32%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 333. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 July 2023.
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#101,490
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