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The Reliability and Validity of the Social Responsiveness Scale to Screen for Autism Spectrum Disorder in Vietnamese Children
The Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS) has been validated in high income countries, but not yet in low and middle-income countries.
Objectives:
We assessed the reliability and validity of a Vietnamese-translated SRS to screen for autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Methods:
We used a 3-phase study in 173 Vietnamese caretakers and their children (ages 4-9 years) that piloted, reliability tested, and validated the translated SRS.
Results:
We found that the translated and culturally adapted Vietnamese SRS demonstrates high reliability (0.82–0.83), validity (0.88–0.89), sensitivity (93%) and specificity (98%) for identification of children with ASD in Vietnam. The optimal cutoff was 60 for both total raw scores and T-scores. Both SRS long and short forms performed adequately in screening for children with ASD.
Conclusions:
Access to validated screening measures is limited in low and middle-income countries. The translated and culturally adapted Vietnamese SRS showed good reliability, validity, and sensitivity for identification of children with ASD in Vietnam. Future studies should examine the utility of culture-specific norms.