Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
13th International Congress on Psychopharmacology & International Symposium on Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology (ICP 2022), Antalya, Türkiye, 9 - 12 Kasım 2022, ss.98-99
OBJECTIVE: The Children's Saving Inventory (CSI) is a measurement tool developed to
assess hoarding behavior in children as rated by parents. This study aims to investigate the
psychometric properties of the Turkish version of the CSI in a clinical sample of children and
adolescents.
METHODS: The study sample consisted of 52 children and adolescents in the 8-17 age group
who were diagnosed with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and their families. As a
structured diagnosis interview, the Development and Well-Being Assessment (DAWBA) was
applied to all participants. OCD and comorbid psychiatric disorders were diagnosed with
DAWBA. Hoarding Disorder (HD) was diagnosed with clinically based on the DSM-5
diagnostic criteria. The Children’s Yale-Brown Obsessive–Compulsive Scale Symptom
Checklist (CY-BOCS) was applied by an experienced clinician. The parents and children
independently filled out the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory—Child Version (OCI-CV) and
CSI scales.
RESULTS: The 20-item CSI Turkish version demonstrated good internal consistency for both
the total score and factor structures. Four-factor structure of the scale was confirmed by the
confirmatory factor analysis. CSI showed convergent and discriminant validity with OCI-CV
and CY-BOCS sub-scales, and the higher CSI total scores in children and adolescents diagnosed
with HD confirmed the construct validity.
CONCLUSIONS: These findings support that the CSI Turkish version can be used as a valid
and reliable scale to investigate the hoarding behavior of children and adolescents in a clinical
sample. In addition, the CSI Turkish version is currently the only validated instrument to
evaluate hoarding behavior in children and adolescents as rated by parents in Turkish
population.