The clinician rated CY-BOCS scale is more sensitive than the self-reported LOI-CV in children and adolescents with obsessive compulsive disorder

METHODS

Design:

Cohort study.

Setting:

Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; timeframe not stated.

Patients:

81 children and adolescents with DSM-IV OCD (mean age 11.5 years, mean age of OCD onset 8.3 years).

Test:

Leyton Obsessional Inventory-Child Version (LOI-CV) survey form self-report: participants completed the 44 item children and adolescent version of the Leyton Obsessional Inventory for current OCD symptoms prior to clinical assessment, without assistance. The LOI-CV items fall into three subgroups: symptoms (each item scored 0 or 1), interference (each item scored 0-3) and resistance (each item scored 0-3). The shorter form of the LOI-CV, the LOI-CV survey form, uses 20 of the symptom and interference items. Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (CY-BOCS): a clinician rated scale of 10 items, each rated from 0 (no symptoms) to...