Characterizing ASD Adult Population Asking for a Diagnosis (ASSORT)

Hôpital le Vinatier

Status: Completed

Conditions: Autism Spectrum Disorder

Treatments: Other: screening and diagnostic assessment DONALD T unit list

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04147988

2019-A01130-57

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators aim at offering to about 80 patients a diagnostic assessment for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and at testing the feasibility of this protocol to detect and diagnose ASD in adults without intellectual disability.

Full description

About 80 adults asked for an ASD diagnosis a Donald-T unit, now closed.The investigators will offer to these patients a diagnostic assessment, with questionnaires, ADOS-II, Vineland Adaptative Behavior Scale and psychiatric examination. Patients who will show negative scores at the detecting questionnaires will not be further assessed, except for 10 out of them, who will be drawn by lot. Then the investigators will be able to discuss the feasibility of such a procedure with these tools, as well as to describe the clinical profile of adult people asking for ans ASD diagnosis.

Enrollment: 42 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• to be on Donald-T's waiting list
• be at least 18 years old

Exclusion criteria

• Any participant who does not meet the inclusion criteria will not be included in the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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42 participants in 1 patient group

DONALD T list

Other group

Description:

adults on the DONALD T list seeking diagnostic advice on autism spectrum disorder or asperger's syndrome

Treatment:

Other: screening and diagnostic assessment DONALD T unit list