Department of Educational Psychology, Educational Sciences Building College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota, 56 River Road, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA.
Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, 200 1St Street Southwest, Rochester, MN, 55902, USA.
J Neurodev Disord. 2023 Jan 25;15(1):5. doi: 10.1186/s11689-022-09473-7.
Unusual responses to sensory stimuli are considered a diagnostic symptom of autism spectrum disorder with mounting research efforts put towards understanding, characterizing, and treating such symptoms.
This paper examines self and caregiver report tools used to measure sensory features in ASD through a systematic review of the psychometric evidence for their use. A total of 31 empirical papers were reviewed across 20 assessment tools. Substantial differences were identified in the specific sensory features defined across assessment tools. Sensory assessment questionnaires were evaluated against quality psychometric evidence criteria to provide a use recommendation.
Five assessments were identified to be "appropriate with conditions," while no sensory assessment tools were identified to have sufficient quality psychometric evidence to provide a recommendation of "Appropriate" for measuring sensory features in ASD.
Evidence from this review highlights potentially significant shortcomings among the current methods used to measure sensory features in ASD and suggests the need for more efforts in developing psychometrically sound sensory assessment tools for use in ASD populations.
对感觉刺激的异常反应被认为是自闭症谱系障碍的诊断症状，目前正在投入大量研究努力来理解、描绘和治疗这种症状。
本文通过对其使用的心理计量证据进行系统回顾，检查了用于测量自闭症谱系障碍中感觉特征的自我报告和照顾者报告工具。共回顾了 31 篇关于 20 种评估工具的实证论文。在评估工具中，确定了在特定感觉特征的定义上存在很大差异。根据质量心理计量学证据标准评估了感觉评估问卷，以提供使用建议。
确定了五个评估工具“适用有条件”，而没有一个感觉评估工具具有足够的质量心理计量学证据，无法提供“适用”的建议来测量自闭症谱系障碍中的感觉特征。
本综述的证据突出了目前用于测量自闭症谱系障碍中感觉特征的方法中可能存在的重大缺陷，并表明需要在开发用于自闭症谱系障碍人群的心理计量学上合理的感觉评估工具方面做出更多努力。
