HEARTS R34 可行性研究，自闭症参与者 (HEARTS-R34)

实验性的：现在的心

HEARTS NOW 小组的参与者将通过 Zoom 参加每周一次的六节在线 HEARTS 课程，了解人际关系。

行为的：爱心班

HEARTS 向自闭症成人传授友谊和健康的约会关系。 HEARTS 有 6 节课，每周都会在 zoom 上开会。 每节课时长 90 分钟。

有源比较器：后来的心

HEARTS LATER 小组的参与者将通过 Zoom 参加一个为期六周的关于关系的在线支持小组。 该组的参与者可以选择在研究结束后参加 HEARTS 课程。

行为的：在线讨论组

一个 90 分钟的讨论小组将在 6 周内每周在线开会，讨论自闭症成人的友谊和健康的约会关系。

Hostile Automatic Thoughts (HATS)

The 25-item Hostile Automatic Thoughts (HAT) Scale is a self-report measure that assesses participants' ability to engage in perspective-taking related to perceived rejection and the extent to which they attribute hostile intentions to a person given an ambiguous situation. Completed by participant. For each item participants will select either: often, sometimes, or never. Higher scores are associated with higher levels of perceived rejection. Scale minimum possible score of 25, scale maximum possible score of 125. A higher score is less desirable and indicates more Hostile Automatic Thoughts.

Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire

The Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire (RSQ), a 10-item self-report measure that assesses participants' capacity to be resilient when experiencing social rejection such as sending a text message and not getting a reply. Lower scores are associated with more resilience given rejection and thus are desirable. The minimum possible score is 20 and the maximum possible score is 720.

CGI-I

This was a binary variable that represents either improvement, or no improvement. To assess improvement, we used the Clinical Global Impressions-Improvement (CGI-I) which is a global measure of improvement and functioning, and measures satisfaction with quality of close relationships. Each of the 3 items are rated on a 7-point scale from: 1 (normal) to 7 (amongst the most severely ill patients). CGI-C scores range from 7 (very much worse) to 1 (very much improved). In this study, those who scored 1, 2 or 3 were considered "improved" and those who scored 4, 5, 6 or 7 were considered "not improved."

SMI

Social motivation was assessed via the Autistic Social Health Interview. The ASHI, adapted from the Social Motivation Interview (Elias & White, 2020), assesses the following dimensions of social health: person's satisfaction with their interpersonal relationships, motivation to socialize, quantity of social relationships and encounters, and willingness to persist in social interaction. During the interview, the interviewer enquires about behaviors over the prior two weeks. The total ASHI score can range from 0-24, with higher scores indicative of greater overall social health.

Intervention Acceptability

An investigator developed self report 3-item scale to assess participants' feelings about whether HEARTS was informative, interesting, how likely participants would be to recommend it to other people and suggestions for how it could be improved will be used to assess this outcome. Participants will indicate their satisfaction on a scale from 1 to 10, where 10 represents highest satisfaction.

Content Acceptability, Week 1

This is an original measure with no scale name and with no subscales that assesses acceptability of intervention content. It is 29 items. Each item asks the participant how useful they found a piece of intervention content. Responses range from 1 to 10 with 1 representing "not at all useful" and 10 representing "very useful." The measure is scored by calculating the average across the items for a given week (Week 1, 3 items; Week 2, 6 items; Week 3, 4 items; Week 4, 6 items; Week 5, 5 items; Week 6, 5 items). The six scores representing each week are then averaged together for a total score. The total score range is 1 to 10.

Teacher Rating of Participant Engagement and Satisfaction

Teachers of the HEARTS intervention will complete a 3-item survey to assess their rating of participant engagement and satisfaction scores (PESS). Scores can range from 0 to 3 where 0 is low and 3 is high satisfaction. Higher scores are more favorable.