TABLE 1.
Instrument | Panel judgment |
Rater | Tic-related dimensions |
Features (other than tics) explored |
Time of administration |
Main advantages of its clinical application |
Main limitations |
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YGTSS | Recommended | Clinician |
|
None | 15–20 minutes |
|
|
STSS | Recommended | Clinician |
|
None | <5 minutes | Brief and easy to administer |
|
TS-CGI | Recommended | Clinician | Overall adverse impact | None | <2 minutes | Brief and easy to administer | Does not assess individual dimensions separately |
TODS | Recommended | Parent or clinician (2 versions) | Overall severity |
|
>20 minutes | Joint assessment of tics and main comorbid behavioral features |
|
PUTS | Recommended in patients older than 10 years | Patient | Premonitory urges | None | 5–10 minutes |
|
|
RVBTRS | Suggested | Clinician |
|
None | >30 minutes (including set-up, filming, and video rating) |
|
|
TSGS | Suggested | Clinician |
|
|
15–20 minutes | Joint assessment of tics, comorbid behavioral features and functioning |
|
GTRS | Suggested | Clinician or caregiver (parents or teachers) |
|
None | <2 minutes | Brief and easy to administer |
|
MOVES | Suggested | Patient |
|
|
<5 minutes |
|
|
PTQ | Suggested | Parents |
|
None | 10–20 minutes |
|
|
TSSL | Suggested | Parents | Frequency | Nontic repetitive behaviors (5 of 41 items) | 10–20 minutes |
|
|
YGTSS, Yale Global Tic Severity Scale; STSS, Shapiro TS Severity Scale; TS-CGI, Tourette Syndrome-Clinical Global Impression; TODS, Tourette’s Disorder Scale; PUTS, Premonitory Urges for Tics Scale; RVBTRS, Rush Video-Based Tic Rating Scale; TSGS, Tourette Syndrome Global Scale; GTRS, Global Tic Rating Scale; MOVES, Motor tic, Obsessions and compulsions, Vocal tic Evaluation Survey; PTQ, Parent Tic Questionnaire; TSSL, Tourette Syndrome Symptom List.