title: Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale and US National Institute of Mental Health Global Obsessive Compulsive Scale in Turkish: reliability and validity.
abstract: Fifteen patients with DSM-III-R diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) were rated according to the Turkish version of the Yale Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) and the US National Institute of Mental Health Global Obsessive Compulsive Scale (NIMH-GOCS) by 7 raters independently from audiotaped interviews. Patients also completed the Maudsley Obsessive Compulsive Inventory (MOCI). Interrater reliability of Y-BOCS and NIMH-GOCS were very good as well as correlations between these two scales. The correlations of MOCI with Y-BOCS and NIMH-GOCS were not significant. We found Y-BOCS and NIMH-GOCS to be reliable and valid instruments in assessing the severity of OCD. These findings suggest that MOCI may not be a suitable instrument for assessing the severity of OCD.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tek
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Uluğ
authors.forename: B G
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Rezaki
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tanriverdi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mercan
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Demir
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vargel
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015588:Observer Variation; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014421:Turkey