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Scahill, L., Riddle, M.A., McSwiggin-Hardin, M., Ort, S.I., King, R.A., Goodman, W.K., Cicchetti, D., & Leckman, J.F.
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Lawrence David Scahill, Ph.D. Yale School of Nursing Rm. A284 100 Church St. South P.O. Box 9740 New Haven, CT 06536 Phone: 1-203-785-5880 Fax: 1-203-737-4480 E-mail: lawrence.scahill@yale.edu
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To assess the presence and severity of obsessions and compulsions in children and adolescents. It is NOT a diagnostic measure.
This measure may be used to assess the type and severity of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms in children and adolescents, as a screening measure to identify children and adolescents in need of further intervention, or to monitor improvement in OCD symptoms in children and adolescents following treatment/intervention.
Clinician, parent, or child/adolescent being assessed.
Obsessions checklist: 33 items (plus 'other' option for each category of obsessions).Compulsions checklist: 31 items (plus 'other' option for each category of compulsions).10 severity questions.
Obsessions and Compulsions
Yes-no for checklist items.
For severity questions, 5-point Likert scale from 0 (none) to 4 (severe) with descriptions of anchors for each question.
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For self- and parent-report versions, none.
For clinician interview version, interviewer must be a clinician familiar with OCD in children and adolescents.
Scoring is done by hand. Scoring and interpretation should be done by a clinician familiar with OCD in children and adolescents.
The norms, reliability and validity statistics included in each measure profile are those reported by the author(s) of the measure. It is important to note that altering, adding or removing questions from a measure voids these reported statistics, possibly making the revised tool unreliable and invalid.
65 children and adolescents, ages 8 to 17, recruited from the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Clinic at the Yale Child Study Center between 1989 and 1995. The sample consisted of 40 boys and 25 girls.
The authors reported internal consistency reliabilities (alphas) of 0.53-0.92, and inter-rater reliabilities of 0.66-0.91. Further studies have reported alphas ranging from 0.32 to 0.90, test-retest reliabilities of 0.61-0.89, and inter-rater reliabilities of 0.58-0.96.
The authors report evidence of moderate concurrent validity, and minimal convergent and divergent validities. Further studies have reported evidence of moderate to extensive concurrent, convergent, and divergent validities. However, there has been mixed evidence supporting concurrent and divergent validities.
No copy available from the Knowledge Institute. Contact author or publisher.
Free.
Lawrence David Scahill, Ph.D. Yale School of Nursing Rm. A284 100 Church St. South P.O. Box 9740 New Haven, CT 06536 Phone: 1-203-785-5880 Fax: 1-203-737-4480 E-mail: lawrence.scahill@yale.edu
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Godoy, A., Gavino, A., Valderrama, L., Quintero, C., Cobos, M. P., Casado, Y., ... Capafons, J.I. (2011). Estructura factorial y fiabilidad de la adaptación española de la Escala Obsesivo-Compulsiva de Yale-Brown para niños y adolescentes en su versión de autoinforme (CY-BOCS-SR). Psicothema, 23(2), 330-335.
Scahill, L., Riddle, M.A., McSwiggin-Hardin, M., Sharon, I., King, R.A., Goodman, W.K., ... Leckman, J.F. (1997). Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale: Reliability and validity. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 36(6), 844-852.
Storch, E.A., Murphy, T.K., Adkins, J.W., Lewin, A.B., Geffken, G.R., Johns, N.B., ... Goodman, W.K. (2006). The Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale: Psychometric properties of child- and parent-report formats. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 20(8), 1055-1070.
Storch, E.A., Murphy, T.K., Geffken, G.R., Soto, O., Sajid, M., Allen, P., ... Goodman, W.K. (2004). Psychometric evaluation of the Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale. Psychiatry Research, 129(1), 91-98.
Ulloa, R.E., de la Peña, F., Hiquera, F., Palacios, L., Nicolini, H., & Avila, J.M. (2004). Validity and reliability of the Spanish version of Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive rating scale for children and adolescents [Spanish]. Actas Españolas De Psiquiatría, 32(4), 216-221.
Yucelen, A.G., Rodopman-Arman, A., Topcuoglu, V., Yazgan, M. Y., & Fisek, G. (2006). Interrater reliability and clinical efficacy of Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale in an outpatient setting. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 47(1), 48-53.
