J Korean Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry.  2011 Jun;22(2):81-88.

A Study of the Validity of and Cut-Off Scores for the Korean Version of Asperger Syndrome Diagnostic Scale

• Kim H
• Shin MS

Abstract

OBJECTIVES
This study examined the reliability and validity of the Korean version of Asperger Syndrome Diagnostic Scale (K-ASDS), to calculate the cut-off score in the diagnosis of Asperger syndrome. Further, we examined classification error rate when applying cut-off scores.
METHODS
One hundred sixty-seven children participated in this study, including 46 with Asperger syndrome, 26 with PDD or PDD NOS, 43 with ADHD, and 52 normal children.
RESULTS
An ANCOVA demonstrated no significant differences in the K-ASDS total score between the Asperger and the PDD & PDD NOS groups. However, these groups did show significantly higher scores than the ADHD and normal groups. Among the five subscales on the K-ASDS, the Asperger group obtained significantly higher scores on the language and cognition subscales than the PDD & PDD NOS groups. Two scales were found to be useful in distinguishing the Asperger group from the PDD & PDD NOS group through a discriminant analysis. According to an analysis of ROC curve, the cut-off score on the K-ASDS for the diagnosis of PDD including Asperger syndrome was 121.
CONCLUSION
We discussed that K-ASDS has pretty limit.

Keyword

Asperger Syndrome; K-ASDS; Validity; Cutoff Score

MeSH Terms

Asperger Syndrome
Child
Cognition
Humans
Reproducibility of Results
ROC Curve
Weights and Measures