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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
The trichotillomania scale for children: Development and validation
Child Psychiatry and Human Development, Volume 39, No. 3, Year 2008
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Trichotillomania (TTM) is a chronic impulse control disorder characterized by repetitive hair-pulling resulting in alopecia. Although this condition is frequently observed in children and adolescents, research on pediatric TTM has been hampered by the absence of validated measures. The aim of the present study was to develop and test a new self-report measure of pediatric TTM, the Trichotillomania Scale for Children (TSC), a measure that can be completed by children and/or their parents. One hundred thirteen children meeting self-report criteria for TTM, and 132 parents, provided data over the internet. An additional 41 child-parent dyads from an outpatient clinic also provided data. Replicated principal components analysis, with elimination of poorly-loading items, yielded two components, which we labeled Severity (five items) and Distress/Impairment (seven items). The TSC total score and subscales showed adequate internal consistency and test-retest reliability. Parent-child agreement was good in the internet sample, but more modest in the clinic sample. Children's TSC scores correlated significantly with other measures of TTM severity, although some exceptions were noted. Parents' TSC scores correlated significantly with other measures of parent-rated TTM severity in the internet sample, but showed more attenuated relationships with child- and interviewer-rated TTM severity in the clinic sample. The present results suggest that the TSC may be a useful measure of TTM for child and adolescent samples, although additional clarification of convergent validity is needed. © 2008 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
Authors & Co-Authors
Tolin, David F.
United States, Hartford
Institute of Living
United States, New Haven
Yale School of Medicine
Diefenbach, Gretchen J.
United States, Hartford
Institute of Living
Flessner, Christopher A.
United States, Milwaukee
University of Wisconsin-milwaukee
Franklin, Martin E.
United States, Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Keuthen, Nancy J.
United States, Cambridge
Harvard University
Moore, Phoebe
United States, Durham
Duke University Medical Center
Piacentini, John C.
United States, Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles
Stein, Dan J.
South Africa, Cape Town
University of Cape Town
United States, New York
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Woods, D. W.
United States, Milwaukee
University of Wisconsin-milwaukee
Statistics
Citations: 73
Authors: 9
Affiliations: 9
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1007/s10578-007-0092-3
ISSN:
0009398X
Research Areas
Health System And Policy
Maternal And Child Health