openalexFrontiers in Psychiatry2026-07-23
Development and pilot evaluation of the Children’s Masking Questionnaire
Lema Delara, Najette Ayadi O’Donnell, Saffron Baldoza, Hannah Belcher, Jo Halsall, Sarah O'Brien (Autistic Adult; Autistica), et al.
Introduction No tools currently exist to measure children’s experience of masking/camouflaging autistic characteristics. Method Using co-production approaches, we developed the Children’s Masking Questionnaire (CMQ) and evaluated its acceptability and appropriateness as determine…