Padua Inventory.
PI
- What it measures
- Obsessional and compulsive behaviour across impaired control of mental activities, contamination, checking, and urges/worries of losing control; topography of obsessions/compulsions in normal and clinical samples
- Length and format
- 60 (original); PI-R / PI-WSUR revisions ~39-49 items. 5-point disturbance (0-4), summed (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Many languages incl. EN, ES, ZH, TR, DE, NL and others; widely cross-validated
- 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
- Sanavio, E. (1988). Obsessions and compulsions: the Padua Inventory. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 26(2), 169-177.
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