القدرة التنبؤية للقائمة المعدلة (M-CHAT-RF)‎ للكشف عن الأطفال المعرضين لخطر الإصابة باضطراب طيف التوحد في مرحلة المشي لدى عينة من الأطفال في العراق

Abstract EN

The study aimed at identifying the predictive ability of the modified Arabized list (MCHAT-R/F) in the detection of children at risk of autism spectrum disorder at toddlers age in a sample of children in Iraq.

the study followed the analytical descriptive method.

study tool was applied on a sample of 210 children, patients of specialized clinics for children in hospitals and primary health care centers of Baghdad province in Iraq; their age ranged from12 moths to 3 years.

the researchers developed illustrations of the questions of the modified list (M-CHAT-R/F) as well as the modification of some vocabularies in these questions in order to have the tool matched with the Iraqi environment which facilitated its application better.

the correct psychometric properties of the study tool were extracted.

the study concluded to some results, the most important of which was that the modified list, previously translated by (Badawi and Sabri, 2016), has the ability to accurately screen of children exposed to the risk of autism spectrum disorder at toddlers, the predictive power was obtained by using the modified list (M-CHAT-R/F) and the extraction of concurrent validity indicators and conducting the autism Spectrum Test (CARS2) with extraction of predictive validity coefficient.

the results of the study also suggested that there are concurrent validity indicators for the study tool, whereas it was extracted by arbitrators.