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Record W4406285379 · doi:10.1080/09638288.2025.2450050

Systematic review of outcome measures used in support programs designed to enhance the functioning for autistic children and adolescents and ICF content mapping

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Léia Cordeiro de Oliveira, Gustavo Janizello, Inaê Silva Santos, Débora Bachin Carvalho, Silvana Nápoli, Verónica Schiariti, Cid André Fidelis de Paula Gomes, Soraia Micaela Silva

Bibliographic record

VenueDisability and Rehabilitation · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicAutism Spectrum Disorder Research
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Victoria
FundersCoordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
KeywordsInternational Classification of Functioning, Disability and HealthPsychologyClinical psychologyContent validityOutcome (game theory)AutismDevelopmental psychologyRehabilitationPsychometrics

Abstract

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PURPOSE: 1) To identify outcome measures used in support programs designed to enhance functioning in autistic children and adolescents, and 2) To map the content of these measures to the domains of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). METHODS: A systematic review was conducted. Searches were performed in Medline/PubMed, EMBASE and Virtual Health Library databases, with no restrictions imposed regarding language or year of publication. Studies that used outcome measures to assess functioning and/or disability in autistic individuals up to 18 years of age were included. RESULTS: was the most used outcome measure. The most frequently associated ICF domains were d7 "Interpersonal interactions and relationships," d3 "Communication," and b1 "Mental functions." The most extensively assessed component was activities and participation. Bladder and bowel control (b5 "digestive, metabolic, and endocrine functions" and b6 "genitourinary and reproductive functions"), multitasking (d2 "general tasks and demands"), and environmental factors (e2 "natural environment and human-made changes" and e4 "attitudes") were each linked only once to the outcome measures. None of the studies addressed the body structures component. CONCLUSION: No single instrument adequately encompasses all ICF domains, underscoring a significant gap in current assessment tools. The domains of body structures, environmental factors and some body functions were under-assessed in studies involving autistic children and adolescents.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.013
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.064
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Systematic review · Consensus signal: Systematic review
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.019
Threshold uncertainty score0.071

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0130.064
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0100.007
Bibliometrics0.0190.020
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.003
Open science0.0020.002
Research integrity0.0020.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.082
GPT teacher head0.378
Teacher spread0.296 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSystematic review
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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