Autism screening and conditional cash transfers in Chile: Using the Quantitative Checklist (Q-CHAT) for early autism detection in a low resource setting.
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Authors
Yáñez, Carolina
López-Garí, Claudia
Elgueta, Constanza
Troncoso, Mónica
Publication Date
2021-05Journal Title
Autism
ISSN
1362-3613
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Volume
25
Issue
4
Pages
932-945
Language
eng
Type
Article
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VoR
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Print-Electronic
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Roman-Urrestarazu, A., Yáñez, C., López-Garí, C., Elgueta, C., Allison, C., Brayne, C., Troncoso, M., & et al. (2021). Autism screening and conditional cash transfers in Chile: Using the Quantitative Checklist (Q-CHAT) for early autism detection in a low resource setting.. Autism, 25 (4), 932-945. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361320972277
Abstract
LAY ABSTRACT: Getting a diagnosis of autism can take long, because autism is different across people, but also because it depends on the way it gets diagnosed. This is especially important in poorer countries or in the case of poor people living in wealthier countries that have significant groups of disadvantaged communities. We adapted a 10-item version of the Q-CHAT-25 questionnaire for use in routine health check-ups programme in Chile and recruited 287 participants under the age of three divided into three groups: Controls (125), Developmental Delay (149) and Autism Spectrum Condition (13). Our results show that a short questionnaire for autism screening can be successfully applied in a health-check programme in poor resource settings. Our results show that our questionnaire had good overall performance, not different to its longer version, the Q-CHAT-25. Our questionnaire was autism specific, with good sensitivity and reliability, and is suitable to be used in a screening setting. This study provides evidence that the implementation of Autism Spectrum Condition screening programmes using the Q-CHAT-10 provides value for money and improves diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Condition in those participating in routine health check-up programmes in developing countries or poor areas of wealthy countries.
Keywords
Humans, Mass Screening, Reproducibility of Results, Autistic Disorder, Infant, Chile, Checklist, Autism Spectrum Disorder
Sponsorship
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support
for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article:
A.R-U. received funding from the Gillings Fellowship in Global
Public Health and Autism Research, Grant Award YOG054 to
the Cambridge Institute of Public Health (PI Carol Brayne). S.BC. received funding from Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint
Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No. 777394. The JU
receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme and EFPIA and AUTISM
SPEAKS, Autistica, SFARI. S.B-C. also received funding from
the Autism Research Trust, Autistica, the MRC, the Wellcome
Trust and the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre.
The research was supported by the National Institute for Health
Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied
Health Research and Care East of England at Cambridgeshire
and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361320972277
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/315564
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