Cross-Cultural Validation of the York Measure of Quality of Intensive Behavioral Intervention.

The objective of this study was to examine the cross-cultural validity of the YMQI in a clinical Swedish community sample of 30 boys and four girls with autism aged 2.5 to 6 years. Internal consistency was alpha = .87 for the full scale YMQI. Interrater reliability among three raters on 97 video-recorded therapy sequences was .71 (intraclass correlation coefficient [ICC]), and intrarater reliability of two raters re-scoring 15 sequences after 6 months was ICC = .87. The convergent validity of the YMQI with EIBI expert ratings was r = .49. Findings endorse the psychometric properties of the YMQI and its usability outside of Anglo-Saxon countries. PMID: 28691542 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Behavior Modification - July 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Långh U, Cauvet E, Hammar M, Bölte S Tags: Behav Modif Source Type: research