Abstract: Background: Now a day, frequencies of psychiatric disorders among children and adolescent accrued more attentions of healthcare professionals. Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is one of the common psychiatric disorders among children and adolescent. In Bangladesh, prevalence of child and adolescent OCD is 2%. Gold standard Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (CY-BOCS) is a clinician-rated and most widely used scale in measurement of OCD symptom severity and thereby treatment response in children and adolescent age group.
Aim of the study: The aim of this study was to assess the reliability of Bangla Version Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive.....
Keywords: Children's Yale- Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale, Bangla version, Reliability, Obsessive compulsive disorder
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