ArticleJournal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996)2018
Premonitory Urge for Tics Scale (PUTS): replication and extension of psychometric properties in youth with chronic tic disorders (CTDs).
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- Sensory Phenomenon Assessment Scale: a new tool for assessment of tic-associated sensations.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Non-just-right experiences are more closely related to OCD than tics in Tourette patients.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Premonitory Urge and Tic Severity, Comorbidities, and Quality of Life in Chronic Tic Disorders.Movement disorders clinical practice · 2023Article
- Clinical evaluation of premonitory urges in children and adolescents using the Chinese version of Individualized Premonitory Urge for Tics Scale.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Urge-tic associations in children and adolescents with Tourette syndrome.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Inhibitory control in youth with Tourette's Disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and their combination and predictors of objective tic suppressibility.Psychiatry research · 2021Article
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- Effectiveness of Behaviour Therapy for Children and Adolescents with Tourette Syndrome and Chronic Tic Disorder in a Naturalistic Setting.Child psychiatry and human development · 2021Article
- Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Version of the Premonitory Urge for Tics Scale: A Preliminary Report.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- The Premonitory Urge for Tics Scale in a large sample of children and adolescents: psychometric properties in a developmental context. An EMTICS study.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2020Article
- Sex and psychiatric comorbidity correlates of the premonitory urge for tic scale in youth with persistent tic disorders.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2020Article
- Premonitory Awareness Facilitates Tic Suppression: Subscales of the Premonitory Urge for Tics Scale and a New Self-Report Questionnaire for Tic-Associated Sensations.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Current behavioral assessments of movement disorders in children.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2018Review
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Abstract
Individuals with chronic tic disorders (CTDs) frequently describe aversive subjective sensory sensations that precede their tics. The first aim of the present study was to explore the psychometric properties of a standardized self-report measure to assess premonitory urges in CTDs, The Premonitory Urge for Tics Scale (PUTS), by replicating the analyses of Woods et al. (J Dev Behav Pediatr 26:397-403, 2005) using a sample twice the size of theirs. The second aim was to conduct an exploratory factor analysis of the PUTS. Eighty-four youth with CTDs, recruited from a pediatric OCD and tic specialty clinic, completed the PUTS while their caregivers completed The Parent Tic Questionnaire (PTQ) and a demographic measure. Consistent with (Woods et al. J Dev Behav Pediatr 26:397-403, 2005), the PUTS was found to be internally consistent (α = 0.82) and significantly correlated with overall tic severity as measured by the PTQ (r = 0.24, p < 0.05) as well as the PTQ number (r = 0.34, p < 0.01) and intensity (r = 0.24, p < 0.05) subscales. A factor-analysis of the PUTS revealed a two-factor solution with one factor capturing the quality of premonitory sensations while the other factor assessed the overall intensity of the urges. These results support the use of the PUTS in reliably measuring premonitory urges, particularly in children over the age of 10 years. Additionally, these findings highlight that urges are uniformly reported across gender and age and are more closely associated with number of tics than the frequency or intensity of tics.
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