Authors: Nora Choque Olsson Sven Bölte
Publish Date: 2013/12/31
Volume: 44, Issue: 7, Pages: 1773-1778
Abstract
There are few evaluated economic tools to assess change in autism This study examined the interrater reliability of the Developmental Disabilities Children’s Global Assessment Scale DDCGAS and the OSU Autism Clinical Global Impression OSU Autism CGI in a European setting Using these scales 16 clinicians with multidisciplinary background and varying experience independently rated eight vignettes of autism spectrum disorder for severity and general psychosocial functioning at referral and discharge Intraclass correlation coefficient ICCs for experienced clinicians were 75 for the DDCGAS and 72 for the OSU Autism CGI In inexperienced clinicians these ICCs were 58 and 59 Results confirm previous North American studies and further extents the reliability of the instruments to untrained less experienced clinicians with different professionsWe sincerely thank the clinicians who participated in this study as well as Stephanie Hansson for her support in the creation of vignettes Sven Bölte was supported by the Swedish Research Council Grant No 52320097054 Nora Choque Olsson and the current study were supported by Stiftelsen Sunnerdahls Handikappfond Majblomman Sällskapet Barnavård and the Stockholm County Council
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