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. 2021 Apr 15;12(1):8.
doi: 10.1186/s13326-021-00242-4.

Project Rosetta: a childhood social, emotional, and behavioral developmental feature mapping

Alyson Maslowski  1 , Halim Abbas  2 , Kelley Abrams  2 , Sharief Taraman  2 , Ford Garberson  2 , Susan Segar  2
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Project Rosetta: a childhood social, emotional, and behavioral developmental feature mapping

Alyson Maslowski et al. J Biomed Semantics. .

Abstract

Background: A wide array of existing instruments are commonly used to assess childhood behavior and development for the evaluation of social, emotional and behavioral disorders such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and anxiety. Many of these instruments either focus on one diagnostic category or encompass a broad set of childhood behaviors. We analyze a wide range of standardized behavioral instruments and identify a comprehensive, structured semantic hierarchical grouping of child behavioral observational features. We use the hierarchy to create Rosetta: a new set of behavioral assessment questions, designed to be minimal yet comprehensive in its coverage of clinically relevant behaviors. We maintain a full mapping from every functional feature in every covered instrument to a corresponding question in Rosetta.

Results: In all, 209 Rosetta questions are shown to cover all the behavioral concepts targeted in the eight existing standardized instruments.

Conclusion: The resulting hierarchy can be used to create more concise instruments across various ages and conditions, as well as create more robust overlapping datasets for both clinical and research use.

Keywords: Assessment; Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder; Autism spectrum disorder; Child behavior; Semantic hierarchy.

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Conflict of interest statement

All authors are current or previous employees of Cognoa, Inc.

Figures

Fig. 1
Fig. 1
Semantic Hierarchy of Clinical Domains. The hierarchical scheme that was created for categorizing each of the clinical instrument subjects into a mapping of clinical domains. The hierarchy shown includes all of the top-level domains, sub-groupings, and leaf categories within the Rosetta mapping
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
Example of Answer Choice Mapping for Adaptability, Routine Change question. Sample answer codes from existing instruments shown in Table 3 are in the boxes surrounding the Rosetta answer choices in the center circle. The mapping of each existing instrument answer choice to the corresponding Rosetta answer choice is shown by the arrow
Fig. 3
Fig. 3
Heat map showing the overlap between instruments for all Rosetta questions. Instruments that have few overlapping Rosetta questions with the corresponding instrument in the column will be in the darkest orange, while instruments that have the most overlapping Rosetta questions with the corresponding instrument in the column will be in the darkest blue
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