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ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2025

Reinvigorating the Promise of the National Database for Autism Research (NDAR) to Advance Autism Knowledge.

Michelle L Stransky, Laneva Cobb, Nina Menon, Emily Barnard, Cynthia Belfleur, Lawrence Scahill, Jocelyn Kuhn

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Article in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2025. 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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7 authors.

Michelle L StranskyCenter for the Urban Child and Healthy Family, Boston Medical Center, 801 Albany St, Boston, MA, 02119, USA. michelle.stransky@bmc.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2509-5133
Laneva CobbMarcus Autism Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Nina MenonDepartment of Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0004-0736-1922
Emily BarnardDepartment of Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0006-6744-4089
Cynthia BelfleurMarcus Autism Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Lawrence ScahillMarcus Autism Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5073-1707
Jocelyn KuhnMarcus Autism Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7349-664X

Funding

HRSA HHS R41MC45950
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The National Institute of Mental Health created the National Database for Autism Research (NDAR) to accelerate autism knowledge through data sharing and collaboration. However, our experience using NDAR reveals systematic challenges across several aspects of data submission, selection, management, and analysis that limit utility of this resource. We describe our NDAR experience in an ongoing project examining autism intervention outcomes among marginalized racial, ethnic, and gender groups. For this study, we planned to gather data from NDAR to conduct an individual participant data meta-analysis. Eighteen studies met inclusion criteria and reported data on participants at more than one point in time on the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales (Vineland) and the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS). The difficulties with submitting, selecting, downloading, and managing data from NDAR posed limitations on data availability and analysis. Of the 3,850 unique participants in the selected studies, data at multiple time points were available for 312 participants on the Vineland and 278 on the ADOS. No participants had data on all assessment domains. To accelerate autism research via data sharing and collaboration with NDAR necessitates improving the processes for submitting, selecting, and managing data.

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Autistic DisorderBiomedical ResearchDatabases, FactualInformation DisseminationChildHumansMaleNational Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)United StatesAutismAutism Diagnostic Observation ScaleBig dataMarginalized populationsNational Database for Autism ResearchVineland Adaptive Behavior Scales

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