Apathy in Tourette Syndrome and Changes in Quality of Life

A 16-item questionnaire to evaluate level of motivation in children and adolescents completed by the primary caregiver.

Clinician administered questionnaire given to Tourette patients. Part 1 asks about 10 types of motor tics, 12 types of vocal tics (current, ever, age of onset, description). Part 2 is a severity rating that scores both motor and vocal tics on a 0-5 scale for each severity item: number of tics, intensity, frequency, complexity, interference, impairment. Totals are summed for all items.

"Clinician administered questionnaire given to Tourette patients. Consisting of 20 items, respondents are asked to indicate how strongly they have felt a certain way during the past week using a Likert-type scale that ranges from not at all to a lot. Only two items on the questionnaire relate specifically to sleep or fatigue. CES-DC is a validated score for assessing depression in children and adolescents"

Clinician administered questionnaire given to Tourette patients. Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome Quality Of Life scale (GTS-QOL) is a recently validated score for the assessment of quality of life in patients with Tourette syndrome. Consisting of a 27-item GTS-specific HR-QOL scale (GTS-QOL) with four subscales (psychological, physical, obsessional, and cognitive).

Data will be collected including: age, age at disease onset, gender, current medication regimen and presence of co-morbidities (like a diagnosis of ADHD, OCD, depression or insomnia).