Perspective: The role of diversity advisory boards in autism research.
Ed-Dee G Williams, Matthew J Smith, Brian Boyd
PMID 36336998WHAT IT FOUND
This article argues that autism research needs diversity advisory boards to better include marginalized groups.
It defines what these boards are and suggests how to form them, but it presents no new data or study results.
What this paper is
This is a perspective article arguing for the use of diversity advisory boards in autism research. It defines the concept, cites existing literature, and offers guidelines for implementation, but it reports no new data, methods, or outcomes from a study. Therefore, there are no clinical findings to act on.
The easy way to misread this
Do not interpret the guidelines or arguments presented as evidence that diversity advisory boards have been tested and shown to improve clinical outcomes or research validity in this study.