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Validation of the Arabic version of the Social Communication Questionnaire
Validated screening and diagnostic tools for autism spectrum disorder for use in Arabic-speaking individuals are scarce. This study validated the Arabic version of the Social Communication Questionnaire. The total study sample included 206 children with autism spectrum disorder and 206 typically dev...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6728746/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30606031 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362361318816065 |
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author | Aldosari, Mohammed Fombonne, Eric Aldhalaan, Hesham Ouda, Mohammed Elhag, Saba Alshammari, Hawraa Ghazal, Iman Alsaleh, Asma Alqadoumi, Tala Thomson, Richard Al Khasawneh, Mohanad Tolefat, Mohamed Alshaban, Fouad |
author_facet | Aldosari, Mohammed Fombonne, Eric Aldhalaan, Hesham Ouda, Mohammed Elhag, Saba Alshammari, Hawraa Ghazal, Iman Alsaleh, Asma Alqadoumi, Tala Thomson, Richard Al Khasawneh, Mohanad Tolefat, Mohamed Alshaban, Fouad |
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description | Validated screening and diagnostic tools for autism spectrum disorder for use in Arabic-speaking individuals are scarce. This study validated the Arabic version of the Social Communication Questionnaire. The total study sample included 206 children with autism spectrum disorder and 206 typically developing children (73.8% male; mean age: 8.5 (standard deviation = 2.6) years). The mean Social Communication Questionnaire total score was significantly higher in autism spectrum disorder children than in typically developing children (p < 0.0001). Scores on the three Social Communication Questionnaire subscales also differed significantly between the groups (p < 0.001). Of the 39 items, 37 were endorsed significantly more often in the autism spectrum disorder group. The total Social Communication Questionnaire score did not vary by age or gender. Internal consistency was excellent (alpha = 0.92). In the receiver operating characteristic analysis, the area under the curve for the total score showed excellent discrimination between autism spectrum disorder and typically developing children (area under the curve = 0.95; 95% confidence interval: 0.93–0.97). The areas under the curve for the scale subscores were 0.923 (95% confidence interval: 0.898–0.949) for the social interaction score, 0.872 (95% confidence interval: 0.838–0.905) for the communication score, and 0.856 (95% confidence interval: 0.819–0.893) for the repetitive behaviors score. The findings support the use of the Arabic Social Communication Questionnaire to successfully differentiate children with clinically diagnosed autism spectrum disorder using the established cutoff value for the English version. |
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spelling | pubmed-67287462019-10-03 Validation of the Arabic version of the Social Communication Questionnaire Aldosari, Mohammed Fombonne, Eric Aldhalaan, Hesham Ouda, Mohammed Elhag, Saba Alshammari, Hawraa Ghazal, Iman Alsaleh, Asma Alqadoumi, Tala Thomson, Richard Al Khasawneh, Mohanad Tolefat, Mohamed Alshaban, Fouad Autism Original Articles Validated screening and diagnostic tools for autism spectrum disorder for use in Arabic-speaking individuals are scarce. This study validated the Arabic version of the Social Communication Questionnaire. The total study sample included 206 children with autism spectrum disorder and 206 typically developing children (73.8% male; mean age: 8.5 (standard deviation = 2.6) years). The mean Social Communication Questionnaire total score was significantly higher in autism spectrum disorder children than in typically developing children (p < 0.0001). Scores on the three Social Communication Questionnaire subscales also differed significantly between the groups (p < 0.001). Of the 39 items, 37 were endorsed significantly more often in the autism spectrum disorder group. The total Social Communication Questionnaire score did not vary by age or gender. Internal consistency was excellent (alpha = 0.92). In the receiver operating characteristic analysis, the area under the curve for the total score showed excellent discrimination between autism spectrum disorder and typically developing children (area under the curve = 0.95; 95% confidence interval: 0.93–0.97). The areas under the curve for the scale subscores were 0.923 (95% confidence interval: 0.898–0.949) for the social interaction score, 0.872 (95% confidence interval: 0.838–0.905) for the communication score, and 0.856 (95% confidence interval: 0.819–0.893) for the repetitive behaviors score. The findings support the use of the Arabic Social Communication Questionnaire to successfully differentiate children with clinically diagnosed autism spectrum disorder using the established cutoff value for the English version. SAGE Publications 2019-01-03 2019-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6728746/ /pubmed/30606031 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362361318816065 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Aldosari, Mohammed Fombonne, Eric Aldhalaan, Hesham Ouda, Mohammed Elhag, Saba Alshammari, Hawraa Ghazal, Iman Alsaleh, Asma Alqadoumi, Tala Thomson, Richard Al Khasawneh, Mohanad Tolefat, Mohamed Alshaban, Fouad Validation of the Arabic version of the Social Communication Questionnaire |
title | Validation of the Arabic version of the Social Communication
Questionnaire |
title_full | Validation of the Arabic version of the Social Communication
Questionnaire |
title_fullStr | Validation of the Arabic version of the Social Communication
Questionnaire |
title_full_unstemmed | Validation of the Arabic version of the Social Communication
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title_short | Validation of the Arabic version of the Social Communication
Questionnaire |
title_sort | validation of the arabic version of the social communication
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topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6728746/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30606031 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362361318816065 |
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