Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder in China: A Nationwide Multi-center Population-based Study Among Children Aged 6 to 12 Years

• Published in: Neuroscience bulletin Vol. 36; no. 9; pp. 961 - 971
• Main Authors: Zhou, Hao, Xu, Xiu, Yan, Weili, Zou, Xiaobing, Wu, Lijie, Luo, Xuerong, Li, Tingyu, Huang, Yi, Guan, Hongyan, Chen, Xiang, Mao, Meng, Xia, Kun, Zhang, Lan, Li, Erzhen, Ge, Xiaoling, Zhang, Lili, Li, Chunpei, Zhang, Xudong, Zhou, Yuanfeng, Ding, Ding, Shih, Andy, Fombonne, Eric, Zheng, Yi, Han, Jisheng, Sun, Zhongsheng, Jiang, Yong-hui, Wang, Yi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore Springer Singapore 01.09.2020; Springer
• Subjects: Anatomy; Anesthesiology; Autism; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Children's furniture; Human Physiology; Neurology; Neurosciences; Original; Original Article; Pain Medicine; Prevalence; Autism Spectrum Rating Scale; China; Autism spectrum disorder; Co-morbidity

This study aimed to obtain the first national estimate of the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in Chinese children. We targeted the population of 6 to 12-year-old children for this prevalence study by multistage convenient cluster sampling. The Modified Chinese Autism Spectrum Rating Sca...