title: Obsessive-compulsive symptoms in a normative Chinese sample of youth: prevalence, symptom dimensions, and factor structure of the Leyton Obsessional Inventory--Child Version.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Chinese adolescents face life stresses from multiple sources, with higher levels of stress predictive of adolescent mental health outcomes, including in the area of obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD). Valid assessment of OCD among this age group is therefore a critical need in China. This study aims to standardise the Chinese version of the Leyton short version scale for adolescents of secondary schools in order to assess this condition.
  
  
  METHODS
  Stratified randomly selected adolescents were selected from four high schools located in Beijing, China. The Chinese version of the Leyton scale was administered to 3221 secondary school students aged between 12 and 18 years. A high response rate was achieved, with 3185 adolescents responding to the survey (98.5 percent). Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) extracted four factors from the scale: compulsive thoughts, concerns of cleanliness, lucky number, repetitiveness and repeated checking. The four-factor structures were confirmed using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Overall the four-factor structure had a good model fit and high levels of reliability for each individual dimension and reasonable content validity. Invariance analyses in unconstrained, factor loading, and error variance models demonstrated that the Leyton scale is invariant in relation to the presence or absence OCD, age and gender. Discriminant validity analysis demonstrated that the four-factor structure scale also had excellent ability to differentiate between OCD and non-OCD students, male and female students, and age groups.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The dataset was a non-clinical sample of high school students, rather than a sample of individuals with OCD. Future research may examine symptom structure in clinical populations to assess whether this structure fits into both clinical and community population.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The structure derived from the Leyton short version scale in a non-clinical secondary school sample of adolescents, suggests that a four-factor solution can be utilised as a screening tool to assess adolescents׳ psychopathological symptoms in the area of OCD in mainland Chinese non-clinical secondary school students.
authors.affiliation: Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University, Parkland, Gold Coast 4222, QLD, Australia; School of Medicine, Griffith University, Parkland, Gold Coast 4222, QLD, Australia. Electronic address: j.sun@griffith.edu.au.
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University, Parkland, Gold Coast 4222, QLD, Australia; School of Applied Psychology and Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia. Electronic address: m.boschen@griffith.edu.au.
authors.forename: Mark J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Boschen
authors.affiliation: Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University, Parkland, Gold Coast 4222, QLD, Australia; School of Applied Psychology and Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia. Electronic address: l.farrell@griffith.edu.au.
authors.forename: Lara J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Farrell
authors.affiliation: Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University, Parkland, Gold Coast 4222, QLD, Australia. Electronic address: n.buys@griffith.edu.au.
authors.forename: Nicholas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Buys
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Psychology/Beijing Anding Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100085, China. Electronic address: Lizhj8@ccmu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Zhan-Jiang
authors.initials: ZJ
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D015995:Prevalence; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
keywords: Assessment; Chinese Youth; LOI-CV.; OCD; Obsessive–compulsive