Systematic review of severity scales and screening instruments for tics: Critique and recommendations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Several clinician, informant, and self-report instruments for tics and associated phenomena have been developed that differ in construct, comprehensiveness, and ease of administration.

Objective

A Movement Disorders Society subcommittee aimed to rate psychometric quality of severity and screening instruments for tics and related sensory phenomena.

Methods

Following the methodology adopted by previous Movement Disorders Society subcommittee papers, a review of severity and screening instruments for tics was completed, applying a classification as "recommended," "suggested," or "listed" to each instrument.

Results

A total of 5 severity scales (Yale Global Tic Severity Scale, Tourette Syndrome Clinical Global Impression, Tourette's Disorder Scale, Shapi

SUBMITTER: Martino D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5482361 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature