• En Empirisk Studie av Autisme på Film og TV 

      Nordahl-Hansen, Anders; Tøndevold, Magnus; Øien, Roald A; Fletcher-Watson, Sue (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-12-02)
      There has been a rise of character portrayals of persons with Autism or autistic traits in TV and film. In this quantitative study we analyse 26 films and TV-shows with characters with Autistic traits and how these relate to diagnostic criteria in DSM-5. Out of all 26 portrayals, 20 showed at least 10 of all 12 symptom items. Our main findings indicate that portrayals, although aligning closely to ...
    • Enhancing the understanding of clinically meaningful results: A clinical research perspective 

      Nordahl-Hansen, Anders; Øien, Roald A; Volkmar, Fred R.; Shic, Frederick; Cicchetti, Domenic V. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-10-31)
      Published research often address aspects related to “statistical significance” but fail to address the clinical and practical importance and meaning of results. Our main objectives in this article are to investigate the merit of common measures of Effect Size in statistical research and to highlight the importance of the simple Relative Risk ratio. In this article we present data where we consider ...
    • Gender Dysphoria, Sexuality and Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Systematic Map Review 

      Øien, Roald A; Cicchetti, Domenic V.; Nordahl-Hansen, Anders (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-07-18)
      In this systematic map review, we aimed (1) at identifying studies including the co-occurrence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and gender dysphoria (GD) between 1946 and 2018, and (2) to present the papers included in this systematic map review to provide authors in the field of GD, sexuality and ASD with an important database of studies focusing on this very complex topic. The field is of emerging ...
    • Om metode: Bruk av inter-observatør enighet og inter-rater reliabilitet i NTA, og forslag til utvidelse av repertoaret i atferdsanalytiske studier 

      Dechsling, Anders; Øien, Roald A; Nordahl-Hansen, Anders (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      For at atferdsanalytiske studier skal inkluderes i evidensbasene må forskningsdesign og de tilhørende statistiske analyser være av god kvalitet. En kvalitetsindikator innen psykologiforskning er bruk og rapportering av enighet mellom observatørene under datainnsamling og analyser. Denne artikkelen beskriver omfanget av artikler i Norsk Tidsskrift for Atferdsanalyse som har metodedel, som oppgir å ...
    • The Scientific Study of Parents and Caregivers of Children with ASD: A Flourishing Field but Still Work to be Done 

      Nordahl-Hansen, Anders; Hart, Logan; Øien, Roald A (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-03-03)
      There is a long history of research on parents and caregivers of individuals within autism. Parents and other primary caregivers typically play the most important part in the lives of persons with ASD although the need for support as the child becomes of age varies widely. This special issue includes 30 articles on central areas related to parenting and caregiving for people with ASD. Some of the ...
    • Virtual and augmented reality in social skills interventions for individuals with autism spectrum disorder: A scoping review 

      Dechsling, Anders; Orm, Stian; Kalandadze, Tamara; Sütterlin, Stefan; Øien, Roald A; Shic, Frederick; Nordahl-Hansen, Anders (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-11-16)
      In the last decade, there has been an increase in publications on technology-based interventions for autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Virtual reality based assessments and intervention tools are promising and have shown to be acceptable amongst individuals with ASD. This scoping review reports on 49 studies utilizing virtual reality and augmented reality technology in social skills interventions for ...