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Clinical: mood, anxiety and stress

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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