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Somatoform Dissociation Questionnaire-20.

SDQ-20

What it measures
Severity of somatoform (bodily) dissociation - anesthesia, motor inhibitions, pain, perceptual alterations
Length and format
20 items. 5-point applicability Likert (1 not at all - 5 extremely), with medical-cause check (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Many incl. NO, PL, PT, ES, SV, TR and others (free eLibrary); English version available
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
open with attribution

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Reference
Nijenhuis, E.R.S., et al. (1996). The development and psychometric characteristics of the Somatoform Dissociation Questionnaire (SDQ-20). Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 184(11), 688-694.

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