NCT04147988

Characterizing ASD Adult Population Asking for a Diagnosis

Describing, Detecting and Orienting Adults Without Intellectual Disability Asking for an Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 42 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hôpital le Vinatier · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Autism Spectrum Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	screening and diagnostic assessment DONALD T unit list	Screening and diagnostic assessment of the group of people awaiting assessment, and thus test the feasibility of a screening and diagnosis procedure for autism in adults without intellectual disabilities

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-09-27
• Primary completion: 2021-07-31
• Completion: 2021-09-30
• First posted: 2019-11-01
• Last updated: 2022-01-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France