Published in Journal of autism and developmental disorders
The Autism Impact Measure (AIM) was designed to track incremental change in frequency and impact of core ASD symptoms. The current study examined the structural and convergent validity of the AIM in a large sample of children with ASD. The results of a series of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses yielded a final model with five theoretica...
Published in Autism : the international journal of research and practice
Anxiety is common in autism spectrum disorder. Many anxiety symptoms in autism spectrum disorder are consistent with Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.) anxiety disorders (termed "common" anxieties), but others may be qualitatively different, likely relating to autism spectrum disorder traits (herein termed "autism-relat...
Published in Clinical nursing research
A systematic review was conducted to characterize assessments for caregivers of hospitalized older adults. Electronic literature searches of Medline, PsycINFO, and CINAHL of articles on caregiver assessments published in English between 2006 and present were completed. Thirty-three articles underwent full-text review; four included assessments desi...
Published in Archives of disease in childhood
This is the second instalment in a four-part series documenting my journey to better understand, and improve the care of, complex paediatric patients. © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.
Bakalářská práce se zabývá problematikou vzduchové neprůzvučnosti, jež je součástí stavební akustiky. Cílem je představit důležitost vzduchové neprůzvučnosti a provést ucelený přehled nejen o způsobech jejího zjištění a vyhodnocení na základě požadavků, ale též o provádění (a případných chybách) konstrukcí a rozboru chování stavebních prvků zabudov...
Published in Assessment
Emotion dysregulation is associated with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and confers risk for behavior problems and functional impairment; however, there is little guidance on best practices for measurement in adolescents. We developed a parent-report version of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS-P). Evidence of reli...
Published in Archives of disease in childhood
Appropriate measurement of emotional health by all those working with children and young people is an increasing focus for professional practice. Most of the tools used for assessment or self-assessment of emotional health were designed in the mid-20th century using language and technology derived from pen and paper written texts. However, are they...
Published in History of science; an annual review of literature, research and teaching
This article introduces the papers contained in this special issue and explores a new field of interest in the history of science: that of measurement and self-making. In this special issue, we aim to show that a focus on self-tracking and individualized measurement provides insight into the ways technologies of quantification, when applied to indi...
Published in Archives of disease in childhood
This is the first instalment in a four part series documenting my journey to better understand, and improve the care of, complex paediatric patients. © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.
Published in Assessment
The Trauma Symptom Checklist-40 (TSC-40) is commonly used in clinical research to index history of childhood maltreatment and assess complex trauma symptomatology in adults. Yet the dimensional structure of this measure has not been examined. We examined the factor structure of the TSC-40 in a sample of 706 undergraduate students, measurement invar...
