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Clinical: broadband and severity

Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation - Outcome Measure.

CORE-OM

What it measures
Global psychological distress across 4 domains (Well-being 4, Problems/Symptoms 12, Functioning 12, Risk 6) + total
Length and format
34 items. 5-pt Likert (0 not at all - 4 most/all the time), past week (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
20+ langs incl. ES, IT, NO, SV, DE, NL, PT, EL, and many European + Latin American versions
Normative data
Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.
Licence
open with attribution

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Reference
Evans, C., et al. (2002). Towards a standardised brief outcome measure: psychometric properties and utility of the CORE-OM. British Journal of Psychiatry, 180, 51-60.

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