Del Giudice, Teresa
Dose, Christina http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5405-4934
Görtz-Dorten, Anja
Steiner, Jennifer
Bruning, Nicole
Bell, Hannah
Roland, Pamela
Walter, Daniel
Junghänel, Michaela
Döpfner, Manfred
Funding for this research was provided by:
Projekt DEAL
Article History
Accepted: 16 December 2020
First Online: 8 January 2021
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: MD and AGD received royalties from treatment manuals, books and psychological tests published by Guilford, Hogrefe, Enke, Beltz, and Huber, including the Symptom Checklist for Autism Spectrum Disorders which is evaluated in this paper. MD has received consulting income and research support from Lilly, Medice, Shire, Janssen Cilag, Novartis, and Vifor, and research support from the German Research Foundation, the German Ministry of Education and Research, and the German Ministry of Health. TDG, CD, JS, NB, HB, PR, DW & MJ declare that they have no potential conflict of interest.
: The Medical Ethical Committee of the University Hospital of Cologne, Germany, declared that no formal consent is required for the type of retrospective research used in this study, which involves data collected in routine clinical care and analyzed anonymously. All parents provided their consent that data on their child collected during the time of treatment at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and the School for Child and Adolescent Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (AKiP) at the University Hospital of Cologne, e.g. questionnaire data, may be used for research purposes. Adolescents of legal age declared this consent themselves. All procedures performed in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.