Goh, D. A.
Gan, D.
Kung, J.
Baron-Cohen, S.
Allison, C.
Chen, H.
Saw, S. M.
Chong, Y. S.
Rajadurai, V. S.
Tan, K. H.
Shek, P. C. L.
Yap, F.
Broekman, B. F. P.
Magiati, I. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7261-7366
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Medical Research Council (NMRC/TCR/004-NUS/2008, NMRC/TCR/012-NUHS/2014)
Ministry of Education - Singapore (R581000130112 Tier 1)
Article History
First Online: 31 January 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
:
: The fourth and fifth authors are the developers of the measure investigated in the present study (the Q-CHAT), however the measure is freely available and non-copyrighted and therefore the authors have no financial interests stemming from this research study. The other authors report no conflicts of interest.
: All procedures performed in this study which involved human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research board. Ethical approval for the larger study, within which this study was embedded, was provided by the Singhealth Centralized Institutional Review Board (CIRB) and the National Healthcare Group Domain Specific Review Board (DSRB), and was approved by the National University of Singapore. Informed consent were obtained from all participants at recruitment. There was no obligation to take part in the study and participants could withdraw at any point without their standard medical care being affected in any way.