Clinical trial NCT06726187: DSM-5 Personality Disorders in Adults with Autism
Official title: DSM-5 Personality Disorders in Adults with Autism
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Conditions: Autism Spectrum Disorder
Keywords: Autism
Personality disorder
Lead sponsor: Parnassia Groep
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-12-10
Enrollment: 102
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Adult males and females (age ≥ 18 years), clinically diagnosed with ASD by a psychologist or a psychiatrist, without intellectual disability, and their informants. ASD participants will be recruited from Sarr Autism Rotterdam, the Netherlands, specialized in psychodiagnostic assessment and treatment for children, adolescents, and adults with ASD. Sarr is part of Parnassia Groep, multisite mental health institute in the Netherlands.

Brief summary: Rationale: Self-report measures are frequently used for research and clinical assessments of adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, there has been little research examining agreement between self-report and informant-report in this population. Reliable self-report measures are essential for conducting research with and providing high quality clinical services for adults with autism spectrum disorder.

Objective: This study aims to examine the usefulness of self-report of DSM-5-TR PD traits in adults with ASD compared to informant-reports by administering the self-report screening measure of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5 Screening Personality Questionnaire (SCID-5-SPQ).


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion criteria Inclusion criteria for ASD participants: (1) primary diagnosis of ASD according to the DSM-5-TR, (2) age 18+ years, (3) no intellectual disability, and (4) at least having completed a primary and secondary education.

Inclusion criteria for informants:

Participants were asked to identify individuals who knew them well and were capable of providing accurate descriptions of their personality traits, preferably informants that cohabited with the participants. When cohabitants were unavailable, participants were asked to identify "the person who knows you best." Additionally, eligibility of informants for inclusion required that, historically, the informant and the participant talked at least monthly and interacted face-to-face at least yearly.

Exclusion criteria Exclusion criteria for ASD participants: (1) no ASD diagnosis, (2) current substance abuse, (3) psychotic disorders, (4) schizophrenia, (5) eating disorder, (6), mental retardation (IQ\<80), (7) suicidal ideations and (8) age \<18 years.

Exclusion criteria for informants: (1) age \<18 years, (2) intellectual disability, and (3) not being able to state and/or recognize psychological and problematic functioning of their participating relative with ASD.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Score SCID-5-PD
timeFrame: 1 day
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Locations:
city: Rotterdam
country: Netherlands
facility: Sarr - Parnassia Groep Antes
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