Can Autism Spectrum Disorders and Social Anxiety Disorders be Differentiated by the Social Responsiveness Scale in Children and Adolescents?
| Autor: | Christine M. Freitag, Angelika Gensthaler, Sonja Rohrmann, Hannah Cholemkery, Laura Mojica |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Adolescent Selective mutism Sensitivity and Specificity behavioral disciplines and activities Diagnosis Differential Social Responsiveness Scale Surveys and Questionnaires parasitic diseases mental disorders Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Humans Raw score Child Social anxiety medicine.disease Social relation Phobic Disorders Child Development Disorders Pervasive Autism spectrum disorder Anxiety Autism Female medicine.symptom Psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 44:1168-1182 |
| ISSN: | 1573-3432 0162-3257 |
| Popis: | Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as well as social phobia (SP), and selective mutism (SM) are characterised by impaired social interaction. We assessed the validity of the Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS) to differentiate between ASD, and SP/SM. Raw scores were compared in 6-18 year old individuals with ASD (N = 60), SP (N = 38), SM (N = 43), and typically developed (N = 42). Sensitivity and specificity were examined. The three disorders showed overlapping SRS scores. Especially in boys with SM (ROC-AUC = .81), presence of ASD was overestimated by the SRS. A combination of three disorder specific questionnaires resulted in marginally improved diagnostic accuracy. For the clinically very relevant differential diagnosis of SP/SM, SRS results must be interpreted with caution. |
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