Abstract
Introduction
The Motor tic, Obsessions and compulsions, Vocal tic Evaluation Survey (MOVES) is a self-report scale suggested as a severity scale for tics and related sensory phenomena observed in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS) and recommended as a screening instrument by the Committee on Rating Scale Development of the International Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorder Society.
Objectives
To cross-culturally adapt a French version of the MOVES and to evaluate its psychometric properties.
Methods
After the cross-cultural adaptation of the MOVES, we assessed its psychometric properties in 53 patients aged 12–16 years and in 54 patients aged 16 years and above: reliability and construct validity (relationships between items and scales), internal consistency and concurrent validity with the Yale Global Tic Severity Scale (YGTSS) and the Children’s Yale–Brown Obsessive–Compulsive Scale (CY–BOCS) or the auto-Yale–Brown scale.
Results
The results showed very good acceptability with response rates greater than 92%, good internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha ranging from 0.62 and 0.89) and good test–retest reliability (ICCs ranging from 0.59 to 0.91). Concurrent validity with the YGTSS, CY–BOCS and auto-Yale–Brown scales showed strong expected correlations. The cut-off points tested for diagnostic performance gave satisfactory values of sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values.
Discussion
Our study provides evidence of the good psychometric properties of the French version of the MOVES. The cross-cultural adaptation of this specific instrument will allow investigators to include French-speaking persons with GTS aged 12 years and over in national and international collaboration research projects.
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The authors thank the CHU de Clermont-Ferrand and the French Association of Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (AFSGT) for their financial support and J Watts for advice on the English version of the manuscript.
The Syndrome de Gilles de La Tourette Study Group: Meja Andrianarisoa, Coralie Angonin, Quentin Besset, Romane Fumat, Guillaume Legrand, Magali Marcheix, Dominique Morand and Clémentine Ramanoel (Service de Psychiatrie de l’Adulte A et Psychologie Médicale, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France); Urbain Tauveron-Jalenques and Jeffrey Watts (Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France); Laurent Gerbaud (Santé Publique, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France); Emmanuelle Deniau (Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, National Reference Center for Tourette Syndrome, Paris, France); Annie Macleod (Centre de compétence Gilles de la Tourette, CHU Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France).
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The study was approved by the Ethical Review Board (Comité de Protection des Personnes Sud-Est I, reference 2012-18/2012-A01003-40, 27 August 2012).
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Jalenques, I., Guiguet-Auclair, C., Derost, P. et al. The MOVES (Motor tic, Obsessions and compulsions, Vocal tic Evaluation Survey): cross-cultural evaluation of the French version and additional psychometric assessment. J Neurol 265, 678–687 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-018-8769-z
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