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. 2022 Sep 1:312:208-216.
doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2022.06.009. Epub 2022 Jun 11.

An ultra-brief screening scale for pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder: The OCI-CV-5

Amitai Abramovitch  1 , Jonathan S Abramowitz  2 , Dean McKay  3 , Heining Cham  3 , Kennedy S Anderson  4 , Lara J Farrell  5 , Daniel A Geller  6 , Gregory L Hanna  7 , Sharna Mathieu  5 , Joseph F McGuire  8 , David R Rosenberg  9 , S Evelyn Stewart  10 , Eric A Storch  11 , Sabine Wilhelm  6
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An ultra-brief screening scale for pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder: The OCI-CV-5

Amitai Abramovitch et al. J Affect Disord. .

Abstract

Background: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an often disabling and chronic condition that is normally assessed using diagnostic interviews or lengthy self-report questionnaires. This makes routine screening in general health settings impractical, and as a result OCD is often under-(or mis-)recognized. The present study reports on the development of an ultra-brief version of the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-Child Version (OCI-CV) which may be administered routinely as a screener for pediatric OCD.

Method: A total of 489 youth diagnosed with OCD, 259 non-clinical controls, and 299 youth with other disorders completed the OCI-CV and other indices of psychopathology. Using item analyses, we extracted five items and examined the measure's factor structure, sensitivity and specificity, and convergent and discriminant validity.

Results: We extracted five items that assess different dimensions of OCD (washing, checking, ordering, obsessing, neutralizing/counting), termed the OCI-CV-5. Results revealed that the measure possesses good to excellent psychometric properties, and a cutoff off (≥2) yielded optimal sensitivity and specificity.

Limitations: Participants were predominantly White. In addition, more research is needed to examine the OCI-CV-5's test-retest reliability and sensitivity to treatment.

Conclusions: The OCI-CV-5 shows promise as an ultra-brief self-report screener for identifying OCD in youth when in-depth assessment is unfeasible.

Keywords: Adolescents; Assessment; Brief screening measure; OCD; Pediatric.

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Fig. 1.
OCI-CV-5 and OCI-CV receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curves for the (a) OCD-NCC sample and (b) OCD-CC sample. NCC: non-clinical controls; CC: clinical controls.
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