Ranjan Rajeev, Sinha Muskan, Ahmad Shamshad, Kumar Pankaj, Deshpande Smita N, Bipeta Rajshekhar
Dept. of Psychiatry, OPD Block, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna, Bihar, India.
Dept. of Community & Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna, Bihar, India.
Indian J Psychol Med. 2025 Mar 17;47(4):392-398. doi: 10.1177/02537176251323595. eCollection 2025 Jul.
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) exhibit atypical responses to sensory stimuli. These sensory and perceptual issues persist as hyper-, hypo-, or atypical sensory reactivity that impacts their daily activities. The present protocol describes a method for developing a locally relevant and simple instrument for identifying and estimating the severity of sensory reactivity in children with ASD.
Employing a consultative approach, the authors aim to develop and validate an Indian instrument to assess sensory reactivity in children with ASD.
To gather insights from parents and experts about sensory reactivity patterns in children with ASD and to use this information to create and validate a culturally relevant tool for measuring the severity of sensory reactivity in these children.
This study will be conducted in two phases following an exploratory sequential mixed-method design. In the first phase, data will be collected through in-depth interviews of parents of children with ASD and focused group discussions with the experts. The collected data will be used to identify different themes and domains related to sensory reactivity. A questionnaire will be developed based on their inputs. In the second phase, the instrument will be analyzed further using exploratory factor analysis to obtain the factor structure and confirmatory factor analysis to test the factor structure of the developed instrument.
A simple, reliable, and validated severity instrument will be developed for children with ASD and made accessible to all for convenient use.
自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）儿童对感觉刺激表现出非典型反应。这些感觉和知觉问题以过度、不足或非典型的感觉反应性持续存在，影响他们的日常活动。本方案描述了一种开发与当地相关且简单的工具的方法，用于识别和评估ASD儿童感觉反应性的严重程度。
作者采用协商方法，旨在开发并验证一种用于评估ASD儿童感觉反应性的印度工具。
收集家长和专家对ASD儿童感觉反应模式的见解，并利用这些信息创建和验证一种与文化相关的工具，用于测量这些儿童感觉反应性的严重程度。
本研究将按照探索性序列混合方法设计分两个阶段进行。在第一阶段，将通过对ASD儿童家长的深入访谈和与专家的焦点小组讨论收集数据。收集到的数据将用于识别与感觉反应性相关的不同主题和领域。将根据他们的意见编制一份问卷。在第二阶段，将使用探索性因素分析进一步分析该工具，以获得因素结构，并使用验证性因素分析来测试所开发工具的因素结构。
将为ASD儿童开发一种简单、可靠且经过验证的严重程度工具，并供所有人方便使用。
