Reliability and Validity of Modified Turkish Version of Autism Behavior Checklist (ABC): Results of Pilot Study

Özdemir, Onur; Diken, İbrahim Halil; Diken, Özlem Erçen; Şekercioğlu, Güçlü

doi:10.20489/intjecse.107931

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“…Thirdly, no golden standard diagnostic tools or interviews were used for diagnoses or research reliability, mainly because the golden standard diagnostic tools for ASD, Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule-second Edition (ADOS-2; Lord et al, 2012) and/or the Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R; Lord et al, 1994), haven’t been translated or adapted to the Chinese language, or widely used in China, and no golden standard diagnostic tools have been established for ADHD. Lastly, although the ABC scale is a widely recognized tool for assessing ASD symptoms (e.g., Fumagalli Marteleto & Marcondes Pedromônico, 2005; Sun et al, 2013; Tang et al, 2023) with demonstrated reliability and construct validity (e.g., Eaves et al, 2000; Eaves & Williams, 2006; Juneja et al, 2010; Ozdemir et al, 2013; Yousefi et al, 2015), it was developed based on the DSM-III criteria (Krug et al, 1980). Future studies should consider incorporating more updated scales that align with the DSM-5 criteria and more recent conceptualizations of ASD (e.g., Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers Revised [MCHAT-R/F]; Robins et al, 2014) to assess ASD symptoms, especially language-related ASD symptoms.…”

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Symptoms of ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder Interactively Predict Children’s Verbal Fluency

Xing,

Wei,

Wang

et al. 2024

J Atten Disord

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Objective: Verbal fluency, the capacity to generate words from a designated category, predicts myriad cognitive and life outcomes. The study investigated verbal fluency in children with ADHD, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and comorbid ADHD and ASD, to understand how ADHD- and ASD-related symptoms individually and jointly predict verbal fluency, and the underlying linguistic and cognitive substrates. Method: Thirty-three school-aged children with ADHD, 27 with ASD, 25 with comorbid ADHD and ASD, and 39 with typical development, were assessed for ADHD and ASD symptoms and completed a semantic verbal fluency task. Results: Findings indicated that ADHD and ASD symptoms, especially ADHD hyperactivity-impulsivity symptoms and language-related ASD symptoms, interactively predicted verbal fluency across diagnostic groups. Conclusion: The study implicated the potential cognitive and linguistic mechanisms underlying verbal fluency differences in ADHD and/or ASD, and clinical practices on enhancing verbal fluency in these clinical groups.

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Symptoms of ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder Interactively Predict Children’s Verbal Fluency

Xing,

Wei,

Wang

et al. 2024

J Atten Disord

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“…Psychiatric diagnoses of the patients were based on DSM-5 criteria using clinician’s opinion and supportive assessment tools. For example, these assessment tools included the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT) in ASD scanning in toddlers, the Autism Behavior Checklist (ABC) in different forms and level of severity of ASD, Turgay’s ADHD Evaluation Scale for ADHD, the Specific Learning Difficulties Symptom Scale for SLD, the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) for anxiety disorders, and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) for depressive disorders [6,16,17,18,19,20,21]. The study protocol was approved by Trakya University Scientific Research Ethics Committee dated 05/11/2018 and numbered TUTF-BAEK 2018/381.…”

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Current Pattern of Psychiatric Comorbidity and Psychotropic Drug Prescription in Child and Adolescent Patients

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Background: In recent years, patterns of the use of psychotropic drugs vary with increasing rates of psychiatric presentation and diagnosis in children and adolescents. Purpose: In this study, we aimed to investigate distributions of current psychiatric symptoms and diagnosis, patterns of the use of psychotropic drugs, and differences according to age and gender in patients presented to a child and adolescent outpatient clinic. Methods: All patients aged between 0 and 18 years presenting to a child and adolescent psychiatry outpatient clinic between November 1, 2017 and November 1, 2018 were included in the study. Files of all patients were examined in detail, and patients’ demographic characteristics, symptoms, psychiatric diagnoses established according to the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), psychotropic drugs initiated, and side effect profiles were recorded. Psychiatric symptoms and diagnostic features of the patients were determined, and the differences were investigated according to gender. Clinical characteristics were compared between diagnosed and undiagnosed patients, and between patients with and without drug initiation. Results: Of the 2066 patients, 1298 (62.8%) were male and the mean age was 10.14 ± 4.42 years. The most common symptoms were hyperactivity (23.8%) and inattention (21.6%) in males, inattention (15.1%) and irritability (14.2%) in females, and 79% of the patients received one or more psychiatric diagnoses. The most common psychiatric diagnoses in both genders were attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), specific learning disorder (SLD), and conduct disorder, respectively. Of the patients who received a psychiatric diagnosis, 61.8% were using psychotropic drugs, with the majority of them (71.3%) receiving monotherapy. The most frequently initiated drugs included psychostimulants, antipsychotics, and antidepressants, with 28.7% of the drug user patients receiving multiple drug therapy. Conclusion: Our study indicates that rate of presentation to child and adolescent psychiatry outpatient clinics is increasing, and rates of diagnosis and initiation of psychiatry drugs are high among the presented children. The prevalence of ADHD shows an increase in males and females in our country, and psychiatric polypharmacy has reached significant rates.

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“…Mental disability along with autistic features presented that the child had no preconception of consequences of his behavior. On the Modified Turkish Version of Autism Behavior Checklist (ABC) [ 11 ], the child's score was 42, indicating a clinical condition of low-functioning autism.…”

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Sibling Death after Being Thrown from Window by Brother with Autism: Defenestration, an Emerging High-Risk Behavior

Sabuncuoğlu

Irmak

Demir

et al. 2015

Case Reports in Psychiatry

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Children diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) may have serious behavioral problems such as aggression, self-injury, and violence. However, the literature on ASD either overrules any correlation between aggression and ASD or maintains the fact that the efforts to link them have so far been inconclusive. Although severe forms of violence are extremely rare in children with autism, there are a few cases reported in the literature with significant harm to siblings. We hereby report an 8-year-old boy with ASD who caused the death of his sibling by throwing her out of the window. Shared similarities of all defenestration cases indicate a pattern of high-risk behavior threatening the survival of minors. We recommend precautions against this high-risk behavior in children with ASD.

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Reliability and Validity of Modified Turkish Version of Autism Behavior Checklist (ABC): Results of Pilot Study

Abstract: The purpose of this pilot study is to investigate reliability and validity of Modified Turkish

Cited by 7 publications

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Symptoms of ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder Interactively Predict Children’s Verbal Fluency

Symptoms of ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder Interactively Predict Children’s Verbal Fluency

Current Pattern of Psychiatric Comorbidity and Psychotropic Drug Prescription in Child and Adolescent Patients

Sibling Death after Being Thrown from Window by Brother with Autism: Defenestration, an Emerging High-Risk Behavior

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