Cross-cultural adaptation to Australia of the KONTAKT© Social Skills Group Training Program for Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A feasibility studyShow others and affiliations
2020 (English)In: Journal of autism and developmental disorders, ISSN 0162-3257, E-ISSN 1573-3432, Vol. 50, p. 4297-4316Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This study investigated the feasibility and cultural validity of KONTAKT©, a manualised social skills group training, in improving the social functioning of adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). KONTAKT© was delivered to 17 adolescents (mage = 14.09, SDage = 1.43; 70% male) with ASD over sixteen 90 min sessions. A pre-test post-test design evaluated changes in personally meaningful social goals, symptom severity, quality of life, interpersonal efficacy, social anxiety, loneliness, and facial emotion recognition at pre, post and 3 months follow-up. Focus groups were conducted post intervention. Findings indicate that KONTAKT© may support Australian adolescents with ASD in achieving their personally meaningful social goals. This study resulted in finalisation of KONTAKT© in preparation for evaluation of its efficacy in a randomised controlled trial (Australian New Zealand Clinical Registry (ANZCTR): ACTRN12617001117303, ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT03294668).
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer, 2020. Vol. 50, p. 4297-4316
Keywords [en]
Adolescents, Autism spectrum disorder, Cross-cultural adaptation, Feasibility, KONTAKT©, Social skills group training, Social skills intervention
National Category
Psychology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-48155DOI: 10.1007/s10803-020-04477-5ISI: 000524892100003PubMedID: 32270385Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85083374567Local ID: ;HLKCHILDISOAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-48155DiVA, id: diva2:1424535
2020-04-172020-04-172021-01-08Bibliographically approved