title: The Padua Inventory: do revisions need revision?
abstract: The purpose of the present study was to examine the psychometric properties, factorial structure, and validity of the Padua Inventory-Washington State University Revision and of the Padua Inventory-Revised in a large sample of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (n = 228) and with anxiety disorders and/or depression (n = 213). The five-factor structures of both revisions were not replicated. A 24-item revision, referred to as the Padua Inventory-Palatine Revision (PI-PR), was developed on the basis of both theoretical and statistical considerations. The PI-PR assesses six subscales: Contamination and Washing, Checking, Numbers, Dressing and Grooming, Rumination, and Harming Obsessions and Impulses. The results demonstrate that the PI-PR is a brief, psychometrically sound, and valid measure for the assessment of a broad range of obsessive-compulsive symptoms, which has important advantages over both previous revisions.
authors.affiliation: Psychosomatic Clinic of Bad Dürkheim. goenner@uni-mainz.de
authors.forename: Sascha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gönner
authors.forename: Willi
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ecker
authors.forename: Rainer
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Leonhart
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014177:Translations