Test Review: CMOCS: Children’s Measure of Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms

Lund, Emily M.; Dennison, Andrea; Ewing, Heidi K.; Carvalho, Catharina

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“…Several self-report measures of OCD are not valid for African American adults due to cultural differences in cleaning, grooming, and related attitudes that overlap with common OCD symptoms (Williams, Wetterneck, & Sawyer, 2015). Such validity issues have been noted in at least one measure of OCD for children (Lund, Dennison, Ewing, & de Carvalho, 2011); so it is possible that the standard interviews used in such studies are not an effective means of determining an OCD diagnosis in African Americans. Preliminary data from one study found that the Structured Clinical Interview for the DSM–IV Axis I Disorders (SCID; First, Spitzer, Gibbon, & Williams, 2002) missed 33.8% of African Americans with OCD (Davis, Chasson, Combs, & Williams, 2013).…”

Section: African Americans Of All Ages Remain Undertreated For Ocdmentioning

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Obsessive–compulsive disorder in African American children and adolescents: Risks, resiliency, and barriers to treatment.

Williams¹,

Jahn²

2017

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a serious condition that remains understudied in ethnoracial minority populations. The presence of OCD and the individual, familial, and cultural factors that influence this condition can interfere with healthy development and cause lifelong disability. To date, there has not been a single published research article focused on OCD in African American youth. Ethnic and racial minorities with OCD are underrepresented or altogether absent from treatment centers and research studies, although evidence suggests that OCD may be particularly persistent in these populations. This article reviews risk factors, protective factors, and barriers to treatment in African American children and adolescents with OCD. This review conceptualizes cultural differences in symptomology, low income, reduced access to care, racism, and mental health stigma, as risk factors. Also discussed are the roles of family factors in the development and maintenance of the disorder, including family accommodations, conflictual family communication, and parenting styles. Potential protective factors are also examined, including a positive ethnic identity, social support, present-centered time orientation, and religious communities. Implications of findings are discussed. There is an urgent need for research to understand the needs of African American children and adolescents with OCD. (PsycINFO Database Record

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Section: African Americans Of All Ages Remain Undertreated For Ocdmentioning

confidence: 99%

Obsessive–compulsive disorder in African American children and adolescents: Risks, resiliency, and barriers to treatment.

Williams¹,

Jahn²

2017

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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Development and Validation of the Youth Obsessive–Compulsive Symptoms Scale (YOCSS)

Caluwé

Clercq

2013

Child Psychiatry Hum Dev

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From the existing self-report measures for youth Obsessive-Compulsive (OC) symptoms, several challenges can be delineated to further improve the assessment of youth OC-related pathology. The current manuscript incorporates these challenges and reports on the development and validation of a new self-report OC scale for younger age groups, that was labeled the Youth Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms Scale (YOCSS), assessing OC symptoms and impairment in adolescents (three independent samples: N = 336; N = 289; and N = 209). Study 1 reports on the construction of the items and facets, and their higher-order structure, whereas Study 2 focuses on the confirmation of this structure, measurement invariance across age, and on the convergent and incremental predictive validity. These psychometric analyses resulted in ten symptom facets (structured in three domains) and one impairment facet, and further suggest that the YOCSS is a promising tool for describing early OC symptoms along a dimensional perspective.

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