BACKGROUND autism is the most common clinical developmental disorder in *** childhood autism rating scale(CARS)and autistic autism behavior checklist(ABC)are the most commonly used assessment scales for diagnosing ***...
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BACKGROUND autism is the most common clinical developmental disorder in *** childhood autism rating scale(CARS)and autistic autism behavior checklist(ABC)are the most commonly used assessment scales for diagnosing ***,the diagnostic validations and the corresponding cutoffs for CARS and ABC in individuals with suspected autism spectrum disorder(ASD)remain ***,for suspected ASD in China,it remains unclear whether CARS is a better diagnostic tool than *** unclear is whether the current cutoff points for ABC and CARS are suitable for the accurate diagnosis of *** To investigate the diagnostic validity of CARS and ABC based on a large Chinese *** A total of 591 outpatient children from the ASD Unit at Beijing Children’s Hospital between June and November 2019 were ***,the Clancy autism behavior scale(CABS)was used to screen out suspected autism from these ***,each suspected ASD was evaluated by CARS and *** operating characteristic(ROC)curve analysis was used to compare diagnostic *** also calculated the area under the curve(AUC)for both CARS and *** We found that the Cronbach alpha coefficients of CARS and ABC were 0.772 and 0.426,***,the reliability of the CARS was higher than that of the *** addition,we found that the correlation between CARS and CABS was ***,we performed ROC curve analysis for CARS and ABC,which yielded AUC values of 0.846 and 0.768,*** cutoff value,which is associated with the maximum Youden index,is usually applied as a decision *** found that the cutoff values of CARS and ABC were 34 and 67,*** This result indicated that CARS is superior to ABC in the Chinese population with suspected ASD.
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