The reliability and validity of the social responsiveness scale to measure autism symptomology in Vietnamese children.

ABSTRACT: The Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS) has been validated in high-income countries but not yet in low- and middle-income countries. We aimed to assess the reliability of the SRS in a community sample and its validity to discriminate between children with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in Vietnam. We used a three-phase study: piloting the translated SRS, reliability testing, and validation of the SRS in 158 Vietnamese caretakers and their children (ages 4-9 years). We examined reliability, validity and sensitivity, and specificity to ASD diagnosis. We applied receiver operator characteristic (ROC) analysis to determine optimal cutoff scores discriminating the children with ASD from those without ASD. We also assessed the performance of the SRS short form. We found that reliabilit

SUBMITTER: Nguyen PH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7397486 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature