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Lookup NU author(s): Emerita Professor Helen McConachie, Professor Ann Le Couteur, Rachel Cole-Fletcher, Anna Cutress, Professor Jeremy Parr, Kathryn Temple
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© 2017 The Author(s)There is a lack of measures that reflect the intervention priorities of parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and that assess the impact of interventions on family experience and quality of life. The Autism Family Experience Questionnaire (AFEQ) was developed through focus groups and online consultation with parents, and reflected parental priorities. It was then administered to the parents of children enrolled in the Pre-school Autism Communication Trial and its 6-year follow-up study. The AFEQ showed good convergent validity with well-established measures of child adaptive functioning, parental mental health and parental wellbeing. It was sensitive to change in response to a parent-mediated intervention for young children with autism, showing treatment effect at treatment endpoint which increased at six-year follow-up.
Author(s): Leadbitter K, Aldred C, McConachie H, Le Couteur A, Kapadia D, Charman T, Macdonald W, Salomone E, Emsley R, Green J, Barrett B, Barron S, Beggs K, Blazey L, Bourne K, Byford S, Cole-Fletcher R, Collino J, Colmer R, Cutress A, Gammer I, Harrop C, Houghton T, Howlin P, Hudry K, Leach S, Maxwell J, Parr J, Pickles A, Randles S, Slonims V, Taylor C, Temple K, Tobin H, Vamvakas G, White L
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Year: 2018
Volume: 48
Issue: 4
Pages: 1052-1062
Print publication date: 01/04/2018
Online publication date: 18/11/2017
Acceptance date: 02/04/2016
Date deposited: 15/12/2017
ISSN (print): 0162-3257
ISSN (electronic): 1573-3432
Publisher: Springer New York LLC
URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-017-3350-7
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-017-3350-7
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