ArticleJournal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry2022
Big Data Approach to Characterize Restricted and Repetitive Behaviors in Autism.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of atypical visual attention towards non-social stimuli in preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024Pooled it
- Restricted and repetitive behavior in children with autism during the first three years of life: A systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Pooled it
- A group intervention for parents and carers to recognise and understand restricted and repetitive behaviour in autistic children: a multisite RCT.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2025Trial
- Predictors of Change in Severity of Self-Injurious Behaviors in Preschool-Aged Autistic Children.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026Article
- Burden and risk factors of autism spectrum disorder: global study and analysis.Pediatric research · 2026Article
- Autistic children sample costly information with increased variability due to inflexible updating.Communications psychology · 2026Article
- Development of Restricted and Repetitive Behaviors from 2-19: Stability and Change in Repetitive Sensorimotor, Insistence on Sameness, and Verbal Behaviors in a Longitudinal Study of Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Psychometric evaluation of the Autism Symptom Dimensions Questionnaire.Developmental medicine and child neurology · 2025Article
- Autistic Traits and Emotion Dysregulation in 5-11-Year-Old Intellectually Able Children With Autism Spectrum Condition: Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation Strategies.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Article
- How the ASCENT model can help optimize exposure therapies for Autistic clients.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- A Normative Model Representing Autistic Individuals Amidst Autism Spectrum Phenotypic Heterogeneity.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Assessing Restricted and Repetitive Behaviours in Online-Sampled Autistic and Non-autistic Individuals: Factor Structure of the Repetitive Behaviours Questionnaire for Adults (RBQ-2A).Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- Sensory processing associated with subcategories of restricted and repetitive behaviors in Japanese children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
- Characterizing subdomains of insistence on sameness in autistic youth.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2023Article
- Repetitive and restricted behaviors and interests in autism spectrum disorder: relation to individual characteristics and mental health problems.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Sex and gender in neurodevelopmental conditions.Nature reviews. Neurology · 2023Review
- Profiles of circumscribed interests in autistic youth.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
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- Subdomains of restricted and repetitive behaviors within autism: Exploratory structural equation modeling using the diagnostic interview for social and communication disorders.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2022Article
- The Transdiagnostic Relevance of Self-Other Distinction to Psychiatry Spans Emotional, Cognitive and Motor Domains.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveDespite being a core diagnostic feature of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), demographic, developmental and clinical correlates of restricted and repetitive behaviors and interests (RRB) remain poorly characterized. This study aimed to utilize the largest available RRB data set to date to provide a comprehensive characterization of how distinct RRB domains vary according to a range of individual characteristics.
methodData were obtained from 17,581 children and adolescents with ASD (mean
resultsMale sex was associated with higher severity of repetitive motor behaviors and restricted interests and with lower severity of compulsions and self-injurious behaviors; no sex differences were found for the insistence on sameness domain. Although repetitive motor behaviors showed a mostly linear (negative) association with age, other RRB domains showed more complex and nonlinear pattern of associations. Higher severity of social and communication impairments provided significant independent contribution in predicting higher severity of all RRB domains at the p < .001 level; however, these effects were small (d < 0.25). The strongest of these effects was observed for insistence on sameness (d = 0.24), followed by repetitive motor behaviors (d = 0.21), compulsions (d = 0.17), restricted interests (d = 0.14), and self-injurious behaviors (d = 0.12).
conclusionFindings reported here provide further evidence that RRB subdomains show a somewhat distinct pattern of associations with demographic, developmental, and clinical variables, with a key implication that separate consideration of these domains can help to facilitate efforts to understand diverse ASD etiology and to inform the design of effective interventions.
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