Screening for Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Using the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-Child Version

Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2020 Dec;51(6):888-899. doi: 10.1007/s10578-020-00966-x.

Abstract

The study assessed the ability of the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-Child Version (OCI-CV) to detect pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) using receiver operating characteristic analyses. The sample consisted of 114 cases with current OCD, 340 cases with other psychiatric disorders (OPD), and 301 healthy controls (HC) ages 7 to 18 years. All 755 participants were assessed with two semi-structured interviews and seven rating scales. In a comparison of current OCD cases and all other participants, the optimal OCI-CV cut-score was 11 with an area under the curve (AUC) of .88. In a comparison of current OCD cases and OPD cases, the optimal OCI-CV cut-score was 11 with an AUC of .82. In a comparison of current OCD cases and HC, the optimal OCI-CV cut-score was 10 with an AUC of .94. The results indicate that the OCI-CV provides an effective screen for pediatric OCD using empirically derived cut-scores.

Keywords: Assessment; OCI-CV; Obsessive–compulsive disorder; Pediatric; Psychopathology.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Child
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mass Screening / statistics & numerical data*
  • Mental Disorders / diagnosis
  • Mental Disorders / psychology
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / diagnosis*
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / psychology
  • Personality Inventory / statistics & numerical data*
  • Psychometrics / statistics & numerical data
  • ROC Curve
  • Reproducibility of Results