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Translation and validation of Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R) for autism diagnosis in Brazil
Michele M Becker1, Mário B Wagner, Cleonice A Bosa
1Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre RS, Brazil.
Objective:
To translate into Brazilian Portuguese the Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R), an extremely useful diagnostic tool in autism.
Methods:
A case-control study was done to validate the ADI-R. After being translated, the interview was applied in a sample of 20 patients with autism and 20 patients with intellectual disability without autism, in order to obtain the initial psychometric properties.
Results:
The internal consistency was high, with a of Crombach of 0.967. The validity of criterion had sensitivity and specificity of 100%, having as a gold standard the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria. The interview had high discriminant validity, with higher scores in the group of patients with autism, as well as high interobserver consistency, with median kappa of 0.824.
Conclusion:
The final version of ADI-R had satisfactory psychometric characteristics, indicating good preliminary validation properties. The instrument needs to be applied in bigger samples in other areas of the country.
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