1. Validation of the Short Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder Screener (SOCS) in children and adolescents
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Luisa Lázaro, Elena Moreno, Ana G. Ortiz, Antonio Godoy, Tíscar Rodríguez-Jiménez, and José A. Piqueras
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Paper ,050103 clinical psychology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,education ,05 social sciences ,MEDLINE ,Creative commons ,Factor structure ,behavioral disciplines and activities ,humanities ,030227 psychiatry ,03 medical and health sciences ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,0302 clinical medicine ,Obsessive compulsive ,Internal consistency ,mental disorders ,medicine ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Screening tool ,Psychiatry ,Psychology ,Reliability (statistics) ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
BackgroundThe Short Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder Screener (SOCS) is recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence as a suitable and validated screening tool for 11- to 15-year olds. Despite its excellent sensitivity and specificity in detecting obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), it has limitations.AimsTo empirically examine whether the SOCS is suitable for assessing OCD symptoms across a wide age range of children and adolescents and to provide new data about its psychometric properties.MethodParticipants were 94 patients (9–19 years) with OCD, and 880 healthy controls.ResultsThe results supported the SOCS' unidimensional factor structure and metric invariance across samples. It showed good reliability in terms of internal consistency and temporal stability. Furthermore, it had significantly high correlations with other OCD measures and an acceptable sensitivity and specificity for detecting OCD.ConclusionsThe SOCS is a brief screening tool suitable for detecting OCD in children and adolescents.
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- 2015