Abstract

BELTRAN DULCEY, Carolina; DIAZ MARTINEZ, Luis Alfonso  and  ZAPATA ZABALA, Maryoris Elena. Childhood Asperger syndrome test in Colombian school children through cast questionnaire and ASSQ TESTS. Psicogente [online]. 2017, vol.20, n.38, pp.320-335. ISSN 0124-0137.  https://doi.org/10.17081/psico.20.38.2554.

Objective: Researchers conducted screening tests (Childhood Asperger Syndrome Test (CAST) and The Autism Spectrum Screening Questionnaire (ASSQ) in order to identify Colombian school children and teenagers from Bucaramanga and Medellin at risk for Asperger Syndrome (AS). Method: After signed informed parent consent, 1.600 school students between ages of 4 and 16 were selected randomly from educational institutions from Bucaramanga and Medellin. In order to identify children at risk for (AS), The Childhood Asperger Syndrome Test (CAST) and The Autism Spectrum Screening Questionnaire (ASSQ) scales were applied in different ways, considering as follows: those who score positive are greater than or equal to 15 for the CAST and 22 for the ASSQ. For the statistical analysis, SE 12.1 Stata version was used. Results: In 9,1 % of the children sampled with diagnosis of (As), using ASSQ scale (95 % 7,7 % 10.6 %) and 8,8 with CAST scale (95 % 7,2 % 10,7 %) There were no significant differences taking into account city, stratum or age. But a positive score for gender was more frequent in men than in women both with CAST scale ZW = 3.569 p<0.001) as in the ASSQ (ZW = 2.089, p = 0.037) Discussion: (SA) diagnosis was identified with a higher presence in men than in women by the two scales. However, it is not recommended to use these scales in clinical context but through screening test which include evaluation in the development of children and adolescents by experts.

Keywords : Asperger Syndrome; Screening; ASSQ; CAST.

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