Florida obsessive-compulsive inventory: Development, reliability, and validity Article

Storch, EA, Bagner, D, Merlo, LJ et al. (2007). Florida obsessive-compulsive inventory: Development, reliability, and validity . JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 63(9), 851-859. 10.1002/jclp.20382

cited authors

  • Storch, EA; Bagner, D; Merlo, LJ; Shapira, NA; Geffken, GR; Murphy, TK; Goodman, WK

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abstract

  • The Florida Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory (FOCI) is a new self-report questionnaire that has separate scales for symptom enumeration (The Checklist) and evaluation of symptom severity (Severity Scale). The present research investigated the FOCI in a sample of 113 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The results indicated that the FOCI Severity Scale is internally consistent (α = .89) and highly correlated with the total score from the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS: Goodman et al., 1989a). The correlations of the FOCI Severity Scale with measures of depression and global severity of psychopathology were similar to those obtained with the Y-BOCS Total Severity Score. The FOCI Symptom Checklist had adequate reliability (K-R 20 = .83) and moderate correlations (rs < .45) with the FOCI Severity Scale, the Y-BOCS scales, and measures of depression and severity of psychopathology. These findings imply concurrent validity for the FOCI Severity Scale. A strength of the FOCI is that it offers a quick evaluation of both presence and severity of OCD symptoms. An important limitation is that the FOCI does not assess the severity of individual symptoms. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

publication date

  • September 1, 2007

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start page

  • 851

end page

  • 859

volume

  • 63

issue

  • 9