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ArticleJournal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines2024

Epidemiology with psychometric spirit: MoBa leads autism's interdisciplinary future-a commentary on Havdahl et al. (2023).

Brian Barger

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Article in Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Brian BargerMark Chaffin Center for Healthy Development: Leadership in Disability, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9403-1331
Georgia State University · US

Funding

Center for Leadership in Disability as a University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities. Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities 90DD0662
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Havdahl et al.'s (2023) Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) skill loss study stands out for their creative consideration of scale items to gain a better understanding of skill loss/regression. This commentary outlines how the MoBa team continues to challenge the field by conducting "basic" measurement analyses with their public health longitudinal population data. Their creative use of items, validity-oriented analyses, and transparent reporting of item correlations emulates early-stage scale development in psychometric research, and sets the stage for considering how psychometricians and epidemiologists might more directly work with each other to improve early autism identification research.

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PsychometricsAutism Spectrum DisorderAutistic DisorderChildHumansLongitudinal StudiesNorwayAutism spectrum disordersepidemiologypsychometrics

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PMID38102783
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