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Klein C, Miczuga T, Röring H, Kost M, Bast N, Thiemann U, Jarczok T, Fleischhaker C, Tebartz van Elst L, Riedel A, Biscaldi M. Sensorische Auffälligkeiten bei
Autismus-Spektrum-Störung: Validierung und Adaptation des
englischsprachigen „Sensory Perception Quotient“ (SPQ) von
Tavassoli und Kollegen. FORTSCHRITTE DER NEUROLOGIE-PSYCHIATRIE 2024; 92:11-18. [PMID: 36070771 DOI: 10.1055/a-1839-6095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Abstract
Although the DSM-5 has emphasised the relevance of sensory abnormalities in autism spectrum disorders (ASD), there are hardly any measures to assess them in German speaking countries. The present study translated the "Sensory Perception Questionnaire" (SPQ) by Tavassoli et al. (2014) to German and validated this scale. The SPQ is a self-rating scale for adults which focuses on perceptual aspects rather than cognitive or motivational antecedents or consequences of such perceptual processes. A total of 188 subjects participated in this study, including n=85 participants with ASD and n=103 neurotypical controls. The autism spectrum quotient (AQ) and the empathy quotient (EQ) were also administered, the IQ was measured using the CFT20-R, and participants were clinically evaluated using the SKID-I. Alternative items were generated to improve the semantic and psychometric properties of the SPQ. Of the 92 original SPQ items, 33 separated the clinical groups significantly and linguistically clearly in the sense of sensory hyper-sensitivity. These items covered primarily the sensory modalities of hearing, touch and vision. Increased sensory hyper-sensitivity was associated with greater scores in the AQ and increased slightly with increasing age. Sensory hyper-sensitivity in participants with ASD was, however, not significantly correlated with the EQ and the IQ. Due to the item-analytical rather than dimensional item selection, the short versions presented here exhibit a clearly better group separation with comparable concurrent validities when compared to Tavassoli's short version of the scale. Pending replication and proper norming, the SPQ short version presented here can be employed for screening purposes and supplement the clinical diagnostic process.
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Affiliation(s)
- Christoph Klein
- Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters, Medizinische Fakultät, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg
- Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters, Medizinische Fakultät, Universitätsklinikum Köln
- Abteilung für Psychiatrie 2, Nationale Universität Athen
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- Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters, Medizinische Fakultät, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg
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- Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters, Medizinische Fakultät, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg
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- Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters, Medizinische Fakultät, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg
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- Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters, Medizinische Fakultät, Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt
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- Abteilung für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie, LVR-Klinik Bonn
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- Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters, Medizinische Fakultät, Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt
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- Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters, Medizinische Fakultät, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg
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- Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Medizinische Fakultät, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg
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- Luzerner Psychiatrie, Ambulante Dienste, Luzern, Schweiz
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- Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters, Medizinische Fakultät, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg
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Ter Wal N, van Ewijk L, Visser-Meily JMA, Volkmer A, Gerrits E, Terwee CB. Further development in measuring communicative participation: identifying items to extend the applicability of the communicative participation item bank. J Patient Rep Outcomes 2023; 7:49. [PMID: 37237158 DOI: 10.1186/s41687-023-00586-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2022] [Accepted: 04/24/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The ability to communicate is a prerequisite for participation in today's society. To measure participation in adults with communication disorders, the Communicative Participation Item Bank (CPIB) was developed in 2006. Since then, several new PROMs have been developed to measure communication and the impact of communication disorders on participation. Moreover, the CPIB items do not all appear to be relevant to certain populations with communication problems and context of communicative participation is changing rapidly, given the increased use of digital communication forms. The purpose of this study was to identify new PROMs developed since 2006 that aim to measure (aspects of) communication, in order to select items that are suitable for expanding the Communicative Participation Item Bank to make the item bank more widely applicable (e.g., to the hearing-impaired population) and tailored to the current societal context. METHODS Medline and Embase were used to search for PROMs that aim to measure (aspects of) communication. Each new PROM as well as the CPIB, was evaluated to determine to what extent it contains items that measure communicative participation and to what extent these items capture all communicative participation domains by linking each item to the ICF Activities and Participation domains. RESULTS This study identified 31 new PROMs, containing 391 items that were labelled as measuring communicative participation. The majority of the 391 items measure aspects of ICF Activities and Participation domain 'communication', followed by the domain 'interpersonal interactions and relationships'. The other ICF Activity and Participation domains were less often addressed. Analysis of the CPIB showed that items do not cover all domains of participation as defined in the ICF, such as the 'major life areas' domain. CONCLUSIONS We found a potential pool of 391 items measuring communicative participation that could be considered for extending the CPIB. We found items in domains that are already present in the CPIB, but also items that relate to new domains, such as an item on talking with customers or clients for the 'major life areas' domain. Inclusion of new items in other domains would benefit the comprehensiveness of the item bank.
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- Nicole Ter Wal
- Research Centre Healthy and Sustainable Living, HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, P.O. box 12011, Utrecht, 3501 AA, The Netherlands.
- Department of Languages, Literature and Communication, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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- Research Centre Healthy and Sustainable Living, HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, P.O. box 12011, Utrecht, 3501 AA, The Netherlands
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- Department of Rehabilitation, Physical Therapy Science & Sports, UMC Utrecht Brain Centre, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Centre of Excellence for Rehabilitation Medicine, UMC Utrecht Brain Centre, De Hoogstraat Rehabilitation, University Medical Centre Utrecht and Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Language and Cognition, University College London, London, UK
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- Research Centre Healthy and Sustainable Living, HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, P.O. box 12011, Utrecht, 3501 AA, The Netherlands
- Department of Languages, Literature and Communication, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology and Data Science, Amsterdam Public Health research institute, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Klein C, Miczuga T, Kost MS, Röring H, Jarczok TA, Bast N, Thiemann U, Fleischhaker C, Tebartz Van Elst L, Riedel A, Biscaldi M. An German Short-Version of the "Sensory Perception Quotient" for Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder. Front Psychiatry 2022; 13:781409. [PMID: 35774088 PMCID: PMC9238434 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.781409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2021] [Accepted: 04/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Sensory features in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have received increasing interest in clinical work and research during the recent years. With the Sensory Perception Quotient (SPQ), Tavasolli and colleagues have produced a self-rating scale for adults with ASD that measures sensory hyper-sensitivity in different sensory modalities, without also tapping cognitive or motivational aspects that precede or follow autistic sensory experiences. Here, we present the results of a translation of the SPQ to German and its short version as well as their validation in samples of autistic or neuro-typical participants. We, furthermore, present the psychometric properties and validities of Tavasolli's original SPQ-short version as well as an alternative short version based on different psychometric item-selection criteria. We can show here that our alternative SPQ-short version, overlapping with the original short-version in 61% of its items, exhibits superior reliabilities, reasonable concurrent validities with other related measures. It, furthermore, exhibits excellent differentiation between autistic and non-autistic samples, underscoring its utility as a screening instrument in research and a clinical instrument to supplement the ASD diagnostic process.
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- Christoph Klein
- Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychosomatics und Psychotherapy in Children Adolescents, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.,Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychosomatics und Psychotherapy in Children and Adolescents, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany.,Second Psychiatry Department, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, University General Hospital "ATTIKON, " Athens, Greece
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- Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychosomatics und Psychotherapy in Children Adolescents, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychosomatics und Psychotherapy in Children Adolescents, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychosomatics und Psychotherapy in Children Adolescents, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Autism Research and Intervention Center of Excellence, University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Autism Research and Intervention Center of Excellence, University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychosomatics und Psychotherapy in Children and Adolescents, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany.,Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychosomatics und Psychotherapy in Children and Adolescents, LVR Hospital, Bonn, Germany
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- Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychosomatics und Psychotherapy in Children Adolescents, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Clinic for Psychiatry und Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Clinic for Psychiatry und Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.,Clinic for Psychiatry, Medical Faculty, University of Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
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- Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychosomatics und Psychotherapy in Children Adolescents, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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Education and employment status of adults with autism spectrum disorders in Germany - a cross-sectional-survey. BMC Psychiatry 2018; 18:75. [PMID: 29580218 PMCID: PMC5870494 DOI: 10.1186/s12888-018-1645-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2017] [Accepted: 03/02/2018] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) experience challenges in participating in the labour market and struggle to achieve and maintain appropriate professional positions, possibly due to impairments of communication and social interaction. Studies have shown high rates of unemployment as well as evidence of inadequate employment. As knowledge on the participation in the German labour market is scarce, the aim of our study was to examine employment status, type of occupation and inadequate employment in a sample of clinically mostly late-diagnosed and most likely not intellectually disabled adults with ASD in Germany. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional-survey in clinically mostly late-diagnosed adults with ASD. Employment status, type of occupation, and the level of formal education and training were examined through a postal questionnaire. Inadequate employment regarding participants' current and longest practised occupation was assessed by transforming participants' information into skill levels of the "Classification of Occupations 2010" of the German Federal Employment Agency, and comparing these with participants' level of formal education and training. RESULTS The response rate was 43.2% (N = 185 of N = 428 potential participants). 94.6% were first-time diagnosed when being 18 years of age or older. 56.8% held a general university entrance-level qualification and 24.9% had obtained a Masters' or diploma degree as their highest vocational qualification. 94.1% had been employed at some time. Of these, 68.4% reported being currently employed, 13.5% being currently unemployed and 17.0% being retired for health reasons. Regarding the longest-practised and the current occupation, the highest proportion of participants was found in the occupational area "health and social sector, teaching and education" (22.4% and 23.3%, respectively). With respect to inadequate employment, 22.1% were found to be overeducated in relation to their longest-practised occupation and 31.3% in relation to their current occupation. This is significantly higher than the percentage of overeducation in the general population. CONCLUSIONS Despite largely high formal qualifications, the clinically mostly late-diagnosed adults with ASD represented in our sample are disadvantaged regarding their participation in the German labour market, especially with respect to rates of unemployment, early retirement and overeducation. Employment support programs should be developed to improve employment outcomes.
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Nickel K, Tebartz van Elst L, Manko J, Unterrainer J, Rauh R, Klein C, Endres D, Kaller CP, Mader I, Riedel A, Biscaldi M, Maier S. Inferior Frontal Gyrus Volume Loss Distinguishes Between Autism and (Comorbid) Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder-A FreeSurfer Analysis in Children. Front Psychiatry 2018; 9:521. [PMID: 30405459 PMCID: PMC6206215 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2018] [Accepted: 10/02/2018] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Objective: Autism spectrum (ASD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are neurodevelopmental disorders with a high rate of comorbidity. To date, diagnosis is based on clinical presentation and distinct reliable biomarkers have been identified neither for ASD nor ADHD. Most previous neuroimaging studies investigated ASD and ADHD separately. Method: To address the question of structural brain differences between ASD and ADHD, we performed FreeSurfer analysis in a sample of children with ADHD (n = 30), with high-functioning ASD (n = 14), with comorbid high-functioning ASD and ADHD (n = 15), and of typically developed controls (TD; n = 36). With FreeSurfer, an automated brain imaging processing and analyzing suite, we reconstructed the cerebral cortex and calculated gray matter volumes as well as cortical surface parameters in terms of cortical thickness and mean curvature. Results: A significant main effect of the factor ADHD was detected for the left inferior frontal gyrus (Pars orbitalis) volume, with the ADHD group exhibiting smaller Pars orbitalis volumes. Dimensional measures of autism (SRS total raw score) and ADHD (DISYPS-II FBB-ADHD score) had no significant influence on the left Pars orbitalis volume. Both, ASD and ADHD tended to have an effect on cortical thickness or mean curvature, which did not survive correction for multiple comparisons. Conclusion: Our results underline that ADHD rather than ASD is associated with volume loss in the left inferior frontal gyrus (Pars orbitalis). This area might play a relevant role in modulating symptoms of inattention and/or impulsivity in ADHD. The effect of comorbid ADHD in ASD samples and vice versa, on cortical thickness and mean curvature, requires further investigation in larger samples.
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- Kathrin Nickel
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Faculty of Medicine, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Faculty of Medicine, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Faculty of Medicine, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Neuroradiology, Faculty of Medicine, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Faculty of Medicine, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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Adults with Asperger syndrome are less sensitive to intonation than control persons when listening to speech. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s40167-016-0035-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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