Affiliation:
1. Mark Chaffin Center for Healthy Development: Leadership in Disability, School of Public Health Georgia State University Atlanta GA USA
2. Population Health Sciences, School of Public Health Georgia State University Atlanta GA USA
Abstract
Havdahl et al.'s (2023) Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) skill loss study stands out for their creative consideration of scale items to gain a better understanding of skill loss/regression. This commentary outlines how the MoBa team continues to challenge the field by conducting “basic” measurement analyses with their public health longitudinal population data. Their creative use of items, validity‐oriented analyses, and transparent reporting of item correlations emulates early‐stage scale development in psychometric research, and sets the stage for considering how psychometricians and epidemiologists might more directly work with each other to improve early autism identification research.
Subject
Psychiatry and Mental health,Developmental and Educational Psychology,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health