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Trial reportJournal of autism and developmental disorders2019

Network Analysis of Anxiety in the Autism Realm.

Farhad Montazeri, Annelies de Bildt, Vera Dekker, George M Anderson

Open access · bronzeAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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In one paragraph

Trial report in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
19citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Feasibility Study of a Novel App-Based Anxiety Intervention for Autistic People.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026
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  6. Structure and dynamics of anxiety in people with ASD and ID: A network analysis.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025
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  7. Network Analysis of Symptoms of Generalized Anxiety and Autism: Discrete but Connected.International journal of developmental neuroscience : the official journal of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience · 2025
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  12. Trajectories of internalizing symptoms among autistic and nonautistic youth during the COVID-19 pandemic.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Farhad MontazeriChild Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, 230 S. Frontage Rd, New Haven, CT, 06519, USA.
Annelies de BildtDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Groningen Medical Center, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Vera DekkerDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Groningen Medical Center, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
George M AndersonChild Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, 230 S. Frontage Rd, New Haven, CT, 06519, USA. george.anderson@yale.edu.
Yale University · USAccare · NLUniversity Medical Center Groningen · NL

Funding

Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development ZonMw, nr 157003005
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The anxiety and autism realms are each complicated and heterogeneous, and relationships between the two areas are especially complex. Network analysis offers a promising approach to the phenotypic complexities of typical and atypical human behavior. The Revised Children's Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS) was used to assess anxiety in 126 high-functioning 9-13 year-olds with ASDs. Network graphs of Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule items and RCADS anxiety total score, social, generalized, panic and separation anxiety subscores consistently found the anxiety node (score) to be highly peripheral. Also, the networks of RCADS anxiety items themselves were similar for the ASDs group and a general population comparison group (n = 2017). The results suggest anxiety is not a central part of autism and that anxiety is dynamically similar (aspects of anxiety relate to one another in a similar manner) in high-functioning autism and the general population.

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Social SkillsAdolescentAnxietyAnxiety, SeparationAutism Spectrum DisorderChildCluster AnalysisFemaleHabitsHumansMaleNetherlandsADOS item scoresAnxietyAutism Diagnostic Observation ScheduleBehaviorNetwork analysisRevised Children’s Anxiety and Depression Scale

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PMID29383649
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