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

Långh, U.; Cauvet, E.; Hammar, M.; Bolte, Sven

doi:10.1177/0145445517719397

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Långh, U.

Cauvet, E.

Hammar, M.

Bolte, Sven

Date

2017

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Journal Article

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Långh, U. and Cauvet, E. and Hammar, M. and Bolte, S. 2017. Cross-Cultural Validation of the York Measure of Quality of Intensive Behavioral Intervention. Behavior Modification. 41 (6): pp. 808-828.

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Behavior Modification

DOI

10.1177/0145445517719397

ISSN

0145-4455

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School of Occ Therapy, Social Work and Speech Path

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/63256

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Curtin Research Publications

Abstract

Â© 2017, Â© The Author(s) 2017. Early intensive behavioral intervention (EIBI) is widely ap plied in young children with autism spectrum disorder. Little research has addressed the significance of adherence to EIBI practices for treatment outcomes. The York Measure of Quality of Intensive Behavioral Intervention (YMQI) was designed to assess EIBI quality delivery in Ontario, Canada. 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.