Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Is it time to change the gold standard of obsessive-compulsive disorder severity assessment? Factor structure of the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale. |
| Authors: |
Fatori, Daniel, Costa, Daniel LC, Asbahr, Fernando R, Ferrão, Ygor A, Rosário, Maria Conceição, Miguel, Euripedes C, Shavitt, Roseli G, Batistuzzo, Marcelo C |
| Source: |
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry; Jul2020, Vol. 54 Issue 7, p732-742, 11p |
| Subject Terms: |
FACTOR analysis, RESEARCH methodology, OBSESSIVE-compulsive disorder, PSYCHOMETRICS, RESEARCH evaluation, SEVERITY of illness index, RESEARCH methodology evaluation |
| Abstract: |
Objectives: The Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale has been considered the gold standard scale to assess obsessive-compulsive disorder severity. Previous studies using exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis with this scale showed mixed findings in terms of factor structure and fit of models. Therefore, we used confirmatory factor analysis to compare different Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale models in a large sample aiming to identify the best model fit. Methods: We assessed adult obsessive-compulsive disorder patients (n = 955) using three measures: Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale severity ratings, the Dimensional Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale and the clinical global impression scale. We tested all factor structures reported by previous studies to investigate which model best fitted the data: one-factor, two-factor, three-factor and their equivalent high-order solutions. We also investigated Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale items correlations with scores from the other measures of obsessive-compulsive disorder severity. Results: Confirmatory factor analysis models presented mediocre to fair goodness-of-fit indexes. Severity items related to resistance to obsessions and compulsions presented low factor loadings. The model with the best fit indexes was a high-order model without obsessive-compulsive disorder resistance items. These items also presented small correlations with other obsessive-compulsive disorder severity measures. Conclusion: The obsessive-compulsive disorder field needs to discuss further improvements in the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale and/or continue to search for better measures of obsessive-compulsive disorder severity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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