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Comparative Study
. 2021 May:299:113851.
doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2021.113851. Epub 2021 Mar 2.

COVID-19 and social responsiveness: A comparison between children with Sotos syndrome and autism

Martina Siracusano  1 , Assia Riccioni  2 , Irene Fagiolo  2 , Eugenia Segatori  2 , Leonardo Emberti Gialloreti  3 , Cinzia Galasso  2 , Paolo Curatolo  2 , Luigi Mazzone  2
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Comparative Study

COVID-19 and social responsiveness: A comparison between children with Sotos syndrome and autism

Martina Siracusano et al. Psychiatry Res. 2021 May.
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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no potential conflict of interest.

Figures

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Fig. 1
Flowchart of the study: sample recruitment. Illustrated in the Figure the main procedure of participants’ recruitment. Sotos Syndrome sample was constituted by children coming from the clinical database of the ChildPsychiatry Unit of the Tor Vergata Hospital. A multidisciplinary team (child psychiatrist, psychologist) of our Unit contacted the families by phone, described the study and invited them to participate, planning a tele-health appointment (10 declined to participate). 8 dropped out of the study (they skipped the tele-health appointment or did not complete the questionnaires required). Therefore the final sample consisted of 12 Sotos participants. ASD sample comprised participants included in the research study, named “COVID-19 Impact on Neurodevelopmental Disorders”, active at the Child Psychiatry Tor Vergata Unit. ASD participants were matched for age and sex with the SOTOS children included in the study.
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