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The problem
Intervention: Use of the ARFID-Brief Screener, a parent-reported screening tool, during routine 2.5- and 4-year health check-ups, followed by diagnostic interview for screen-positive cases
Who it was tested with: 645 Swedish preschool children (mean age 3.2 years, 50.5% male) attending routine child health center visits.
Experience from people who deliver programmes: stories, case studies and lessons learned. Valuable for understanding how and why, and for spotting what to test next, but not a measure of effect.
"Parents of all screen-positive and of randomly selected screen-negative children were invited to a follow-up diagnostic interview via phone." This represents a quasi-experimental validation design where the screening tool's accuracy was assessed against a diagnostic gold standard, making it suitable for evaluating the tool's effectiveness in identifying ARFID in routine practice.
Only 29 of 42 screen-positive children completed follow-up diagnostic interviews; the study was conducted in one region of Sweden which may limit generalizability; differential verification bias may have occurred as not all screen-negative children were interviewed.
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