I have run a study on auditory perception with a sample of children with ASD. Given the high rates of comorbid diagnoses in individuals with ASD, I have some participants with multiple diagnoses (e.g., ADHD, anxiety, speech-language impairment). Is there a way I can control for these comorbid diagnoses so I do not have to exclude these participants? Is there a way to use secondary diagnosis as a covariate? Could I run the analysis with and without the participants who have additional diagnoses? Thank you in advance for any feedback.
Article Future Directions for Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders
I think this will help in some way.
You can not exclude the patients with anxiety and speech delay, since these are autistic feautures according to the DSM-V. It's hard to select patients with pure autism, because it always comorbid with other disorder such as ID, Epilepsy, regression, without neglecting the "syndromic autism". So you may just exclude the ADHD patients since it's a disorder that could influence your results and statistics.
Dear Breanne Yerkes !
Very interesting study on comorbidity and hearing!
Autism spectrum disorders are not a single variant, but a syndrome with comorbidity.
Recruit patients and perform statistical analysis through correlation and you will get interesting new results
Sincerely, Doctor of Medical Sciences Drevitska Oksana
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