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Correlation between premonitory urges and tic symptoms in a Chinese population with tic disorders.
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- Environmental moderators of tic severity and quality of life in children with tic disorders.European journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
- Subtypes of tic disorders in children and adolescents: based on clinical characteristics.BMC pediatrics · 2025Article
- Network Analysis of Premonitory Urges, Tic Symptoms, Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms, and Quality of Life in Drug-Naïve Children and Adolescents with Tic Disorder.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- Sensory Phenomenon Assessment Scale: a new tool for assessment of tic-associated sensations.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Clinical characteristics of pediatric patients with treatment-refractory Tourette syndrome: An evidence-based survey in a Chinese population.World journal of psychiatry · 2022Article
- Classification of tic disorders based on functional MRI by machine learning: a study protocol.BMJ open · 2022Article
- Revisiting the structure of the Yale Global Tic Severity Scale (YGTSS) in a sample of Chinese children with tic disorders.BMC psychiatry · 2021Article
- Correlation between premonitory urges and tic symptoms in a Chinese population with tic disorders.Pediatric investigation · 2020Article
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Abstract
importanceTics usually start around 4-6 years old and affect about 1% of school-age children. Premonitory urges (PUs) are sensory phenomena that precede tics and are often described as unpleasant feelings. Recent evidence supports a relationship between PUs and tic severity, but reports are conflicting. In addition, there is no report of PUs in the Chinese population.
objectiveTo investigate the correlation between PUs and tic symptoms in the Chinese population with tic disorders.
methodsWe recruited 252 Chinese individuals with chronic tic disorders (age 5-16 years). The Yale Global Tic Severity Scale (YGTSS) was used to assess tic symptoms, and the Premonitory Urge for Tics Scale (PUTS) was used to assess PUs. We calculated Spearman correlations between PUTS and YGTSS scores, and constructed a linear regression model to predict the tic symptom severity by PUs.
resultsThere was a significant positive correlation between PU severity (PUTS scores) and motor tic severity, total tic severity, tic-caused impairment (YGTSS scores) (
interpretationWe provide evidence for a correlation between PUs and tic symptoms. PU severity predicts tic symptom severity. Further research on PUs is needed to clarify the shared brain mechanism with tics, and their role in tic expression. A suitable tool to assess PUs in younger children is also needed.
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