Autism spectrum screening questionnaire for children under 2 years old

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Objectives To develop the autism spectrum screening questionnaire for child under 2 years old. 

Materials & methods The screening questionnaire was developed by consisting of several questions that were reflected symptoms of autism spectrum disorder found in children under 2 years old. Parents were asked to provide feedback whether their children had shown kinds of symptoms
or not. Then, the questionnaire was sent to the experts for further verification and confirmation on its validity of criterion and content. Forty-three items of questions were concluded and trialed with parents of patients and parents of normal children under 2 years old. In order to ensure the reliability, data from parents of children under 2 years old who used hospitalize service of Yuwaprasart Waithayopathum
Hospital and well child clinics were collected with 30 samples per target group. The result was brought to analyze for further removing a number of questions from 43 items to 15 items. Then, data collection was carried out with 152 parents of sampling children under 2 years old of Yuwaprasart Waithayopathum Hospital and 83 samples of well child clinics and nursery center. All samples were diagnosed by child
and adolescent psychiatrists in order to identify sensitivity, specificity and cutoff point.

Results The autism spectrum screening questionnaire for child under 2 years old with 15 questions, reliability of 0.94, cutoff point of 6, sensitivity of 0.72, specificity of 0.75.

Conclusion The autism spectrum screening questionnaire for children under 2 years old had good sensitivity and specificity. Number of examine questions were optimal and aligned to diagnosed criterions, that being use by psychiatrists in general. The questionnaire was applicable to increase the
effectiveness of screening process for potential patients.