A French Translation of the Obsessive-Compulsive Drinking Scale for Craving in Alcohol-Dependent Patients: A Validation Study in Belgium, France, and Switzerland

Abstract

The Obsessive-Compulsive Drinking Scale (OCDS) is an instrument developed to measure cognitive aspects of alcohol craving. The aim of this study was to validate the French translation of the OCDS according to the international methodology as published by Hunt and coworkers (see text), including forward-backward translations, patient interviews (9 patients), patient’s perception of acceptability (15 patients), and final validation within a treatment program (50 patients). All 74 patients were native French-speaking alcohol-dependent patients from Belgium, France, and Switzerland. The derived aggregated total (TOT) score and both subscores corresponding to the obsessive (OB) and compulsive (CP) dimensions were shown to be asymptomatically normal. Good internal consistencies were found, with Cronbach α: TOT = 0.88; OB = 0.82; CP = 0.79. The test-retest procedure was used to examine intrarater reliability (r = 0.81). The construct validity was examined with linear correlation of the two main components: r(OB, CP) = 0.62; r(OB, TOT) = 0.86; r(CP, TOT) = 0.92. Principal-components analysis revealed two main factors: the first factor representing the total scale score, while the obsessive and compulsive subscale scores were distributed along factor two. The translated scale seems to be psychometrically as valid as the original English scale and confirms the psychometric properties of the OCDS.

Pharmacodynamic Effects of Acamprosate on Markers of Cerebral Function in Alcohol-Dependent Subjects Administered as Pretreatment and during Alcohol Abstinence

“…1) and was ambulatory, with the exception of a 3-day hospitalisation at the beginning of the abstinence period (visit B = days 1-3) and a 2-day hospitalisation at the end of the study (visit D = days 14 and 15). Alcohol craving and anxiety were systematically assessed using visual analogue scales, the Obsessive Compulsive Drinking Scale (OCDS) [25] and the State and Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) [26]. Additionally, at the beginning of the abstinence period (visit B), alcohol withdrawal symptoms were evaluated with the CIWA-Ar Scale [27].…”

On the predictive validity of automatically activated approach/avoidance tendencies in abstaining alcohol-dependent patients

“…As can be seen in Table 1, daily alcohol consumption was much higher in the patient group than in control group. We also administered the Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire (AEQ), a measure of the extent to which an individual beliefs that alcohol consumption will serve certain functions or result in desirable consequences (Brown et al, 1987;Vautier and Moncany, 2008) and the Obsessive Compulsive Drinking Scale (OCDS), a questionnaire that measures cognitive aspects of alcohol craving (Ansseau et al, 2000;Anton et al, 1995Anton et al, , 1996. In comparison to participants from the control group, abstaining alcohol-dependent patients experienced much more alcohol craving and expected more desirable consequences after alcohol consumption (see Table 1).…”

Validation study of the Turkish version of the obsessive–compulsive drinking scale in male alcohol dependent inpatients / Obsesif–kompulsif içme ölçeğinin Türkçe şeklinin yatarak tedavi gören erkek alkol bağımlılarında geçerlilik ve güvenirlik çalışması

“…As in previous studies two different methods were used to calculate these three variables (23,24), both of them were followed in the Italian study (21) in order to compare their results with those of the Dutch (23) and French (24) research groups. We too used both calculation system and compared with all these three studies (21,23,24). In the Dutch method, sum scores of items 1 to 6 (maximum score: 24) is obsessive subscale (OB-D), whereas sum scores of items 7 to 14 (maximum score: 32) is compulsive subscale (CP-D).…”

“…Means ± S.D. (calculated according to the Dutch (D) and French (F) methods) and Cronbach's α values were compared to those found in the Dutch (23), French (24) and Italian studies (21). In alcohol dependents, the internal consistency coefficient (Cronbach's alpha) was (Table 6).…”

“…The purpose of this study was to translate and to validate the Turkish version of the OCDS, to assess its reliability, internal consistency and factor structure, to compare it with the Italian (21), Dutch (23) and French (24) studies according to Dutch (23) and French (24) versions, which used 14 and 10 items solutions of the scale respectively.…”