Do you have tips for administering questionnaires when a parent has a known mental illness such as bipolar, schizophrenia, or active chemical use?
The ASQ developers recommend having both the parent and another adult providing care for the child separately complete ASQ questionnaires. Parents with mental illness may be able to observe their child and provide valid and reliable information despite their symptoms. If the parent is an involved parent, it would be …
What age range does ASQ:SE-2 cover?
ASQ:SE-2, which includes 9 questionnaires, covers 1 month through 6 years of age. The following intervals are available: 2, 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 48, and 60 months of age
The ASQ-3 User's Guide reports cutoff scores and standard deviation intervals for each interval. Does a similar table exist for ASQ:SE-2?
Table C.7 in the ASQ:SE-2 User's Guide contains the cutoffs for each questionnaire interval (see ROC cutoff score column). The ASQ:SE-2 Technical Report includes a specific discussion of the ROC analyses and why means and standard deviations weren't used for ASQ:SE-2 (see pp. 193-194).
Most parents don’t see their child interact with peers because they do this at preschool or child care. How will their answers to these questions be valid?
Most parents see their children interact with peers—during playdates, at birthday parties, at social events, in the neighborhood, in the community, on sports teams, and so forth. For children who have been in a preschool or child care environment, parents typically have seen and heard about their children’s social in…
Can you provide a sample question from ASQ:SE-2?
A question from the 30 month questionnaire, for example, is: Does your child let you know how he is feeling with either words or gestures? For example, does he let you know when he is hungry, hurt or tired?
I would like to use ASQ in my doctoral research. Do I need your permission to use the tool in my study?
If you plan to use the published versions of ASQ with no modifications or alterations in your research, written permission from the publisher is not required. If you plan to translate, adapt, or otherwise change the product, you should submit a request through the online form . The permissions process takes several …
Is a child considered premature if born before 37 weeks of gestation?
When conducting research for ASQ-3 and ASQ:SE-2, the authors used 39 weeks of gestation as a full-term pregnancy. However, some programs use 38 weeks or 40 weeks of gestation as a full-term pregnancy, which is also fine. When using ASQ-3 or ASQ:SE-2, you adjust for prematurity if a child is born 3 or more weeks prema…
Are the master questionnaires on the CD-ROMs interactive or modifiable?
No, the questionnaires on the CD-ROMs are in PDF format and are not fillable (interactive) or modifiable. The CD-ROMs are basically a more durable version of the paper forms. You can use the CD-ROMs to print the questionnaires and then photocopy them as needed. If your program is interested in personalizing the quest…
I am scoring a completed ASQ:SE-2 questionnaire, but one of the items has two answers. That is, the parent circled two responses for one item. How would I score that item?
First, you should try to contact the parent and determine which response they intended to choose for that item. If you cannot get a response from the parent, you should drop that item from the scoring (similar to a parent skipping an item) and calculate an adjusted score. For easy adjusted scoring calculation, use …
How many keycodes do I need?
If you are a single-site organization purchasing an ASQ Pro subscription, you need one keycode for each type of questionnaire you are interested in using in the online system. For example, if your organization would like to use ASQ-3 in English and ASQ:SE-2 in English, you will need one ASQ-3 in English keycode and o…
