The Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms in Tic Disorders and the Psychometric Properties of Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale: An Evidence-Based Survey in a Chinese Sample.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Patients with tic disorders (TDs) usually also have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The severity of obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCSs) in TD is widely evaluated using the Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (CY-BOCS). However, there is no survey on the severity of OCSs in patients with TD based on a Chinese sample, and the reliability and validity of the CY-BOCS in patients with TD have not been well established in China. This study examined the severity of OCSs in TDs and the psychometric properties of the CY-BOCS in Chinese pediatric patients with TD.

Methods

A total of 367 patients who were diagnosed with TD [152 with Tourette syndrome (TS)] were enrolled in the Department of Psychiatry at Beijing Children's Hospital in China. The mean age of

SUBMITTER: Yan J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9218257 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature