Study for the adaptation of the premonitory urge for tics scale in to Turkish

The aim of this study is to performe on the validity and reliability of the PUTS anmong children and adolescent. To differentiate the tic disorders from the other disorders a scale to diagnose the premonitory urges before the tic is needed. The main purpose of this study is to contribute to the literature. This study is performed on 102 children and adolescents who have been treated in 2 hospitals in Adana and Ankara. Personal information form, Premonitory Urge for Tics Scale (PUTS), Yale Global Tic Severity Scale (YGTSS) and Strength and Difficulties Questionniare (SDQ) werw used to gather the data. The validity and reliability have been investigated in this adaptation study. EFA and CFA have been performed to investigate the validity. Cronbach's Alpha internal consistency ceofficiend and Equivalent tesr correlation were used to investigate the reliability of the scale. SPSS 21.0 was used for exploratory factor analysis and reliability tests, and SPSS Amos 25.0 was used for confirmatory factor analysis. The results of these analysis proved that PUTS for children and adolescents had sufficient validity and reliability. Also a positive and significant but a weak correlation between PUTS and YGTSS but not a significant correlation between PUTS and SDQ have been detected.