TY - JOUR
T1 - The Japanese version of the Family Accommodation Scale for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
T2 - Psychometric properties and factor analysis
AU - Kobayashi, Yuki
AU - Matsunaga, Hisato
AU - Nakao, Tomohiro
AU - Kudo, Yuka
AU - Sakakibara, Eisuke
AU - Kanie, Ayako
AU - Nakayama, Noriko
AU - Shinmei, Issei
AU - Horikoshi, Masaru
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by a TMC Young Investigator Fellowship Grant from the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry. The authors would like to thank all of the participants for their participation, Dr. Anthony Pinto, Dr. Barbara Van Noppen and Dr. Lisa Calvocoressi for authorizing the translation of the FAS-SR into Japanese, and Dr. Hirokuni Sanematsu, Dr. Keitaro Murayama of Kyushu University, Dr. Kazuhisa Hayashida, Dr. Kensei Maebayashi, and Dr. Keiichiro Mukai of Hyogo College of Medicine for the data collection. We also thank Dr. Yoshitake Takebayashi of the NCNP for the statistical analysis, and Dr. Norio Sugawara of the NCNP for useful comments.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2017/10
Y1 - 2017/10
N2 - Although a variety of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)-related family pathologies, such as family accommodation, may exist in Japanese OCD patients, few studies on this topic have been conducted, and a validated assessment tool is not available in Japan. The Family Accommodation Scale (FAS) is the most widely used measure of accommodation behavior in OCD patients. The aims of this study were to develop a Japanese version of the FAS—Self-Rated Version (FAS-SR), to examine its reliability and validity, and to study the clinical correlates of family accommodation in OCD. We subsequently examined the psychometric properties of the Japanese version of the FAS-SR in a sample of 41 Japanese OCD patients and 41 relatives. The Japanese version of the FAS-SR demonstrated good internal consistency and test-retest reliability. It showed good convergent and divergent validity when concomitantly assessed with other measures, such as OCD symptom severity, functional impairment, family functioning, psychological distress, a variety of psychiatric symptoms and cognitive-reflection-impulsivity. Additionally, family psychopathology, especially somatization, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, depression, hostility and psychoticism, were significantly correlated with family accommodation in OCD. The Japanese version of the FAS-SR has acceptable psychometric properties for assessing family accommodation in Japanese patients with OCD in both research and clinical settings.
AB - Although a variety of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)-related family pathologies, such as family accommodation, may exist in Japanese OCD patients, few studies on this topic have been conducted, and a validated assessment tool is not available in Japan. The Family Accommodation Scale (FAS) is the most widely used measure of accommodation behavior in OCD patients. The aims of this study were to develop a Japanese version of the FAS—Self-Rated Version (FAS-SR), to examine its reliability and validity, and to study the clinical correlates of family accommodation in OCD. We subsequently examined the psychometric properties of the Japanese version of the FAS-SR in a sample of 41 Japanese OCD patients and 41 relatives. The Japanese version of the FAS-SR demonstrated good internal consistency and test-retest reliability. It showed good convergent and divergent validity when concomitantly assessed with other measures, such as OCD symptom severity, functional impairment, family functioning, psychological distress, a variety of psychiatric symptoms and cognitive-reflection-impulsivity. Additionally, family psychopathology, especially somatization, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, depression, hostility and psychoticism, were significantly correlated with family accommodation in OCD. The Japanese version of the FAS-SR has acceptable psychometric properties for assessing family accommodation in Japanese patients with OCD in both research and clinical settings.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jocrd.2017.08.012
DO - 10.1016/j.jocrd.2017.08.012
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85028517761
VL - 15
SP - 27
EP - 33
JO - Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
JF - Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
SN - 2211-3649
ER -
