The Obsessive Compulsive Drinking Scale: Translation into Dutch and Possible Modifications

Abstract

The 14-item Obsessive Compulsive Drinking Scale (OCDS) is a quick and reliable self-rating instrument developed to measure cognitive aspects of craving for alcohol. The aim of this study was to translate the OCDS into Dutch (OCDS-Dutch). In addition, as a secondary exploratory exercise eight questions were added: three items referring to drinking intention, as potential substitutes for the OCDS items referring to drinking behavior, and five affective items. Three visual analogue scales were also added for comparison. The translated scale and the additional items were administered to 39 Dutch and Belgian alcohol-dependent patients. Translated and substituted scale scores were highly comparable with the OCDS. The internal consistency was good (alpha OCDS: 0.86, OCDS-Dutch: 0.85, and substituted scale: 0.89). The intercorrelations between scale and subscale scores ranged from 0.62 to 0.93 in all three versions of the scale. The relation with analogue craving measures of the OCDS-Dutch (r = 0.71) and substituted scale (r = 0.70) was higher than that of the OCDS (r = 0.40). The affective items did not improve reliability or validity of the scale in any way. The translated scale seems to be psychometrically as valid as the original scale. Substitution of the drinking behavior items by drinking intention items to predict alcohol use seems useful and further research with the proposed questions is suggested.

No influence of one right-sided prefrontal HF-rTMS session on alcohol craving in recently detoxified alcohol-dependent patients: Results of a naturalistic study

“…It is supposed to have a higher validity than visual analogue scales (Schippers et al, 1997). The lowest attainable total score is 0, while the highest total score is 56.…”

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

“…The OCDS has been successfully translated into Dutch [4] according to the methodology published by Hunt et al [5]. This translated scale was reported to be psychometrically as valid as the original scale.…”

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).…”

“…Pearson linear correlations between subscales, total OCDS and VAS scores calculated according to the Dutch (D) (23) and French (F) (24) methods (Table 7).…”

“…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.…”