title: Validation study of the Turkish version of the Yale - Brown obsessive compulsive scale for heavy drinking in a group of male patients.
abstract: Psychometric properties of Turkish version of the Yale Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale for heavy drinking (YBOCS-hd) were examined in alcohol-dependent male patients. Factor structure, internal consistency and discriminant validity of the YBOCS-hd were analysed in a sample of 117 male patients diagnosed with alcohol dependence. To study its convergent validity, the YBOCS-hd was correlated with the Addiction Severity Index in 34 of the patients. A test - retest reliability study was performed on the data from 34 patients. Correlation between the YBOCS-hd total score and the ASI Alcohol Use score was moderate (r = 0.51). One factor explained 50.2% of the variance. The YBOCS-hd was able to discriminate the groups abstinent for less than 1 month and a second group with at least 1 month of abstinence. Test - retest correlation was high (r = 0.81, ICC = 0.81). The Turkish version of the YBOCS-hd proved to be a reliable and valid instrument measuring craving in alcohol-dependent male individuals.
authors.affiliation: Alcohol and Substance Dependence Treatment Unit, Psychiatric Clinic of Ankara University Hospital, Ankara, Turkey. iilhan@medicine.ankara.edu.tr
authors.forename: Inci Ozgur
authors.initials: IO
authors.lastname: Ilhan
authors.forename: Hatice
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Demirbas
authors.forename: Yildirim B
authors.initials: YB
authors.lastname: Dogan
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000592:standards; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014421:Turkey