Disclosing a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder without intellectual disability to pediatric patients in Japan in early diagnostic stages and associated factors: a cross-sectional study

Table 3 Results of multiple logistic regression analysis

	AOR	95% CI	p value
Male – ref. Female	0.713	0.410 – 1.239	0.230
Years of experience in ASD practice	0.973	0.946 – 1.001	0.061
Psychiatry (pediatric) – ref. Pediatrics	1.918	0.992 – 3.708	0.053
Psychiatry (adult) – ref. Pediatrics	0.921	0.389 – 2.176	0.850
Examine patients in elementary school and lower	0.812	0.301 – 2.187	0.680
Examine patients in junior high school and higher	12.762	4.030 – 40.415	< 0.001
ASD is a personality trait	1.113	0.658 – 1.885	0.689
I. Factor related to readiness to accept diagnosis	0.606	0.419 – 0.878	0.008
II. Factor related to treatment systems	0.972	0.689 – 1.371	0.872
III. Factor related to needs for disclosure	1.049	0.739 – 1.489	0.789

AOR adjusted odds ratio, CI confidence interval
Among 361 physicians who responded that "deciding on a case-by-case basis” was the ideal way of disclosing ASD diagnosis, 288 who provided responses to all items were included in this analysis. Four physicians who diagnosed ≥ 250 patients with ASD in the past year were excluded. Hosmer–Lemeshow's goodness of fit test: p = 0.4635

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