Pierce Nigel P, O'Reilly Mark F, Sorrells Audrey M, Fragale Christina L, White Pamela J, Aguilar Jeannie M, Cole Heather A
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA,
J Autism Dev Disord. 2014 Jul;44(7):1507-19. doi: 10.1007/s10803-014-2041-x.
This review examines ethnicity reporting in three autism-related journals (Autism, Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, and Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders) over a 6-year period. A comprehensive multistep search of articles is used to identify ethnicity as a demographic variable in these three journals. Articles that identified research participants' ethnicity were further analyzed to determine the impact of ethnicity as a demographic variable on findings of each study. The results indicate that ethnicity has not been adequately reported in these three autism related journals even though previous recommendations have been made to improve inadequacies of descriptive information of research participants in autism research (Kistner and Robbins in J Autism Dev Disord 16:77-82, 1986). Implications for the field of autism spectrum disorders are discussed in addition to further recommendations for future research.
本综述考察了三本与自闭症相关的期刊（《自闭症》《关注自闭症及其他发育障碍》和《自闭症与发育障碍杂志》）在六年期间对种族的报道情况。我们采用了全面的多步骤文章检索方法，以确定这三本期刊中作为人口统计学变量的种族情况。对那些明确了研究参与者种族的文章进行了进一步分析，以确定种族作为人口统计学变量对每项研究结果的影响。结果表明，尽管此前已有人提出建议，以改善自闭症研究中研究参与者描述性信息的不足之处（基斯特纳和罗宾斯，《自闭症与发育障碍杂志》16:77 - 82，1986年），但这三本与自闭症相关的期刊仍未充分报道种族情况。除了对未来研究的进一步建议外，还讨论了对自闭症谱系障碍领域的影响。
