Goal attainment scaling-community-based: A method to incorporate personalized outcomes into intervention research with youth and adults on the autism spectrum.
Chung Eun Lee, Karrie A Shogren, Jordan Segal, Florencia Pezzimenti, Janeth Aleman-Tovar, Julie Lounds Taylor
PMID 34128405WHAT IT FOUND
This paper describes a new method for researchers to measure personalized goals in autism studies.
It details the protocol's development and validity checks but reports no patient outcomes or intervention effects, so it contains no clinical findings to act on.
What this paper is
This is a methodological paper describing a new framework for setting and measuring personalized goals in autism research. It outlines the steps of the protocol and discusses its development, but reports no patient outcomes, trial results, or efficacy data for any intervention. There are no findings here to change clinical practice.
The easy way to misread this
Do not assume this framework has been tested with patients or shown to improve outcomes. It is a description of a research tool's design, not evidence that the tool works in clinical practice.