Screening young people for obsessive compulsive disorder.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in young people is underrecognized and undertreated. Simple screening tools suitable for general practice and community services are needed. We created a seven-item self-report Short OCD Screener (SOCS) and administered itto young people aged 11-15 years, including 116 patients with OCD, 181 healthy community controls and 33 young people with other psychiatric diagnoses. The SOCS has excellent sensitivity of 0.97 (95% CI 0.91-0.98) to detect OCD cases. Its specificity is good in children without psychiatric diagnoses, but low in a psychiatric sample. The SOCS is a screening tool suitable for community but not specialist settings.
Uher
Rudolf
R
South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK.
Heyman
Isobel
I
Mortimore
Catherine
C
Frampton
Ian
I
Goodman
Robert
R
D000293:Adolescent; D035061:Control Groups; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000295:instrumentation*; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity