Investigating the validation of the Chinese Mandarin version of the Social Responsiveness Scale in a Mainland China child population

Autor: Yayong Liang, Bi-yuan Chen, Xiaobing Zou, Chao-qun Cen, Qiu-Ru Chen, Hongzhu Deng, Kaiyun Chen
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
Male
Chinese version
China
Adolescent
Psychometrics
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Mandarin Chinese
Sensitivity and Specificity
Social Responsiveness Scale
Developmental psychology
Validity
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Asian People
parasitic diseases
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Translations
Child
Reliability (statistics)
Language
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
05 social sciences
Reproducibility of Results
medicine.disease
Reliability
language.human_language
Confirmatory factor analysis
Exploratory factor analysis
Checklist
Psychiatry and Mental health
Convergent validity
ROC Curve
Autism spectrum disorder
Scale (social sciences)
Case-Control Studies
Child
Preschool
language
Autism
Female
Psychology
Factor Analysis
Statistical
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
050104 developmental & child psychology
Research Article
Zdroj: BMC Psychiatry
ISSN: 1471-244X
Popis: Background Researchers from several different countries have found the Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS) to have good psychometric properties. However, to our knowledge, no studies on this subject have been reported in Mainland China. In this study, we investigated the psychometric properties of the Chinese Mandarin version of the SRS when used in Mainland China. Methods The reliability and validity of the parent-report SRS in a sample of 749 children of 4- to 14-year-olds: 411 typically developing and 338 clinical participants (202 with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)) were examined. Results Internal consistency for total scale (0.871–0.922), test–retest reliability (0.81–0.94), and convergent validity with the Autism Behavior Checklist (ABC) (0.302–0.647) were satisfactory. The SRS total score discriminated between the ASD and other developmental disorders. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analyses revealed that the SRS was predicted to accurately classify 69.2–97.2% of youth ASD. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) supported a single-factor solution for the ASD subsample. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) did not confirm the theoretical construct of five factors model with inadequate fit in the ASD subsample. Conclusions Overall, our findings supported the reliability and validity of the parent-report SRS as one ASD screening instrument. In addition, we also suggest that the use of separate cut-offs for screening purposes (optimizing sensitivity) vs. clinical confirmation (optimizing specificity) should be considered.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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