Luc Lecavalier|Jeffrey J. Wood|Alycia Halladay|Nicholas E. Jones|Michael G. Aman|Edwin H. Cook|Benjamin L. Handen|Bryan H. King|Deborah A. Pearson|Victoria Hallett|Katherine Sullivan|Sabrina N. Grondhuis|Somer Bishop|Joseph P. Horrigan|Géraldine Dawson|Lawrence Scahill
Measuring Anxiety as a Treatment Endpoint in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Neurobehavioral Systems|University of California, Los Angeles|Autism Speaks|Autism Speaks|University of Illinois at Chicago|University of Pittsburgh|Seattle Children's Hospital|University of Washington|The University of Texas at Austin|King's College London|University of Washington|Cornell University|Duke University Hospital|Duke Medical Center|Emory University
despite high rate anxiety individuals autism spectrum disorder asd measuring anxiety asd fraught uncertainty due part incomplete consensus manifestations anxiety population autism speaks assembled panel experts conduct systematic review available measures anxiety youth asd complete review panel held monthly conference calls two facetoface meetings fourteenmonth period thirty eight published studies reviewed ten assessment measures examined four deemed appropriate use clinical trials although conditions three judged potentially appropriate three considered useful clinical trials assessing anxiety despite recent advances additional relevant reliable valid outcome measures needed evaluate treatments anxiety asd