Psychometric Validation of the ASC-ASD Anxiety Scale in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Psychometric Validation of the ASC-ASD Anxiety Scale inChildren with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Elsa M. Castañeda Mikrukova (PGDip) Autonomous University of Barcelona.

PhD. Manuel Ojea Rúa University of Vigo.

International Journal of Latest Research in Humanities and Social Science (IJLRHSS), 6(5), 464- 474. 2023. www.ijlrhss.com

Summary: 

The knowledge, diagnosis and treatment of clinical anxiety in people considered within the autism spectrum is a challenge since most of the instruments are designed based on research variables for people outside the autism spectrum. A total of 91 parents of children between 6 and 18 years of age, diagnosed with ASD in Metropolitan Lima participated in this study. In this sense, the general objective of this study is the validation of the anxiety scale: ANXIETY SCALE FOR CHILDREN WITH ASD (ASC ASD-P) in relation to anxious behaviors in people with ASD. The results show a significant validity of the Scale content; however, there are discrepancies in the allocation of reagents to the corresponding dimensions. The Exploratory Factor Analysis and the Alpha Values of Anxiety present the following data: 1) Anxiety due to Uncertainty (McDonald’s: .86 and Cronbach's Alpha: .85); 2) Performance Anxiety (McDonald’s: .81 and Cronbach's Alpha: .81); 3) Anxious Arousal (0.86 McDonald’s: .86 and Cronbach's Alpha: .8). Separation anxiety is excluded from the analysis due to its low factor value. These data allow us to affirm that the scale to evaluate the presence of ASC-ASD clinical anxiety, parent version, has adequate psychometric properties for the predictive measurement of anxiety in people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). 

Keywords: Autism Spectrum Disorder, Clinical Anxiety, Anxiety Scale Validation.

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EFFECTIVENESS OF AN INTEGRATED GLOBAL SYSTEM PROGRAM TO IMPOROVE BEHAVIOURAL DEVELOPMENT IN PEOPLE WITH AUTISMO SPECTRUM DISORDER

EFFECTIVENESS OF AN INTEGRATED GLOBAL SYSTEM PROGRAM TO IMPROVE BEHAVIOURAL DEVELOPMENT IN PEOPLE WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER

Manuel Ojea Rúa
Elsa M. Castañeda Mikrukova

RA Journal of Applied Research, 9(5), 292-300. May, 2023.

ABSTRACT

From the behavioural perspective, the specific diagnosis of people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), was categorized by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5th of the DSM-V-TR of American Psychiatric Association (2013) and also the International Classification of Diseases, 11th. from World Health Organization (2018). Both classifications have indicated it specific behavioural construct associated with its diagnosis, defined by a whole of socio- behavioural deficits; however, it is need to have added that cognitive-perceptive symptomatic groups are the direct cause and consequence of the behavioural particularity in people with ASD. For this reason, in this study has raised like general aim to analyse the effectiveness of the application of an integrated cognitive-behavioural systemic program to improve behaviours in people with ASD. The research study has been designed a quasi-experimental analysis of three groups with two pre-test and posttest measures. The groups are made up by: 1) an experimental group of 4 students with ASD (n= 4), which the integrated global systemic program was applied, 2) a control group-1, composed of 4 students with ASD, who have followed an A-B behavioural program (Stimulus-Response), and 3) a third control group-2, also made up of 4 students with ASD, who have followed several usual behaviours of modification programs (N= 12). Results found from means of non-parametric Kruskal Wallis Test (K-W), have showed the effectiveness of global integrated program implemented to experimental group, which has founded highly significant critical differential indices, regarding other two control 1-2 groups. Likewise, the bivariate correlations between behavioural dimension and cognitive-perceptive factors of processing are calculated and shown. 

KEYWORDS: Autism Spectrum Disorder, Global Systemic Intervention, Cognitive- Behavioural Attention. 

ATENCIÓN INTEGRAL BASADA EN MODELOS DE INTERVENCIÓN BASADOS EN LOS DATOS

 SE PRESENTA EL INSTITUTO SOCIAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS, CON ATENCIÓN A NIÑOS Y NIÑAS CON TRASTORNOS DEL ESPECTRO AUTISTA Y OTRAS NECESIDADES ESPECÍFICAS:

La Voz de Galicia Ourense, 27-5-2023

"Ourense cuenta desde esta semana con un nuevo recurso de atención a personas con trastorno del espectro autista. El colectivo está impulsado desde el ISIC Tea, un instituto social de investigaciones científicas en el área del autismo que comenzó a funcionar el pasado mes de enero en Ourense bajo la batuta del profesor, psicólogo y psicopedagogo Manuel Ojea. Esa entidad sin ánimo de lucro nació para sumar esfuerzos y fomentar la cooperación de los investigadores que trabajan en ese campo. «Deuse a circunstancia de que había algunha nai dentro do instituto e plantexou por que non facíamos intervención con nenos afectados. Pareceunos boa idea», añade este catedrático que ha publicado más de unta treintena de libros y manuales sobre la materia.
Para ofrecer esa asistencia se crea la asociación, aunque su recorrido dependerá del respaldo que tenga la iniciativa y de las familias que se asocien. La idea es ofrecerles servicios de diagnóstico, intervención psicoeducativa, inserción laboral y actividades de ocio y tiempo libre. «Pensamos ofrecer o de diagnóstico porque realmente hai moi poucos sitios que o dean. Ata agora, que tamén o empezan a facer no CHUO, había que ir a Vigo ou A Coruña. A intervención psicosocial e educativa terá diferentes sesións semanais, dependendo das necesidades dos rapaces e en función dun programa chamado PEP, que é un método psicoeducativo funcional», aclara Manuel Ojea..."

LA "PESADILLA" DE UNA TERAPIA EQUIVOCADA EN PERSONAS CON AUTISMO

 ADAPTACIÓN DE TERAPIAS COGNITIVO- CONDUCTUALES EN PERSONAS CON TRASTORNO DEL ESPECTRO AUTISTA

LA REGIÓN, 10- 5- 2023

Protocolo de acceso aos estudos universitarios dos estudantes con Trastorno do Espectro Autista: Novas perspectivas

REVISTA GALEGA DE EDUCACIÓN.NOVA ESCOLA GALEGA

Num. 85 (Abril 2023)O TEMA

Páxinas 24 - 25

ISSN: 1132-8932

Por Manuel Ojea

A investigación psico-social e educativa na área das Persoas con Trastorno do Espectro Autista (TEA) avanzou de forma significativa, na que se refutan empiricamente novos principios nucleares da conceptualización do trastorno e, en consecuencia, é preciso considerar os novos presupostos básicos baseados nos modos do procesamento perceptivo-cognitivo do fenotipo particular das persoas con TEA (Ojea, 2023).