Not exact matches
We included GQ respondents» self - identified race / ethnicity because of national concerns about biomedical research workforce diversity.10, 11 Respondents who chose not to answer the race / ethnicity
item comprised the unknown group; we
combined this group with other race / ethnicity for
analysis, since we were unable to determine race / ethnicity for either group.
The second
analysis, which explored whether ADHD symptoms and
items of the SCQ group together or form separate factors, found that the two factors of
items of social - communicative deficits from the SCQ factor
analysis (i.e. the «social» and «non-verbal communication» factors)
combined into a single «social» factor and the hyperactive - impulsive symptoms tended to group with RRB
items in a «rigidity / hyperactivity» factor, with a separate factor for inattentive ADHD symptoms.
Cases with any missing data in either
analysis were excluded (SCQ
analysis: 97 with 1/39, 52 with 2/39 and 112 with > 2/39
items missing;
combined SCQ - ADHD
analysis: 117 with 1/57, 55 with 2/57 and 115 with > 2/57
items missing), leaving a complete data set of N = 560 for the SCQ
analysis, and N = 534 for the
combined SCQ - ADHD
analysis.
Higher inter-correlations than expected were found between
items 1, 2 and 3 (r = 0.51 to r = 0.68), which will be evaluated
combined with the reliability and factor
analysis results, in order to decide whether one or more of the
items is not needed in the questionnaire.
For this reason, the above findings will be
combined with the factor
analysis results, so as to decide whether an
item should be excluded.