Factor Structure, Reliability, and Validity of the Spanish Version of the Children’s Florida Obsessive Compulsive Inventory (C-FOCI)

Abstract

The Children's Florida Obsessive Compulsive Inventory (C-FOCI) is a promising self-report measure of the presence and severity of obsessive-compulsive symptoms in children and adolescents. Although initial research showed it to have adequate psychometric properties, only one study has been published to date, which dealt exclusively with children. The aim of this report was to examine the psychometric properties of the C-FOCI across clinical and community samples of children and adolescents. The sample consisted of 94 Spanish-speaking patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and 1068 healthy community controls, aged 8-19 years. Factor analysis supported two single and independent factors (severity and symptoms), as well as metric invariance across groups for the symptom checklist and the Severity Scale. Results also indicated good reliability in terms of internal consistency and temporal stability, significant and high correlations with other OCD measures, and acceptable sensitivity and specificity for detect OCD. In summary, the C-FOCI is a promising, brief measure of 22 items for screening OCD symptoms and severity in children and adolescents.

Psychometric evaluation of a parent-rating and self-rating inventory for pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder: German OCD Inventory for Children and Adolescents (OCD-CA)

“…Correlations between the OCD-CA Total scores (parent- and self-reported) and measures of internalizing problems, depressive symptoms and anxiety symptoms were predominantly moderate to high across samples, which is in line with other studies [7, 8, 46].…”

“…CHOCI Impairment Scale [15]). Instruments assessing OCD symptoms in different domains usually found lower correlations with the CY-BOCS Rating Scale Total Score [7, 42, 46]. In contrast, parent ratings on the OCD-CA did not correlate with the CY-BOCS-D Total Score.…”

Florida Obsessive‐Compulsive Inventory and Children's Florida Obsessive Compulsive Inventory: A reliability generalization meta‐analysis

“…The first of these C‐FOCI subscales measures the presence/absence of 17 obsessions and compulsions that are frequent among young people with OCD, whereas the latter uses the same five items as the original FOCI, with small vocabulary changes. The FOCI and the C‐FOCI have been adapted and validated to other languages such as Thai (Saipanish et al, 2015 ), Chinese (Cao et al, 2021 ), and Spanish (Piqueras et al, 2016 ).…”