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Clinical: specific disorders

Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale Modified for Body Dysmorphic Disorder.

BDD-YBOCS

What it measures
Severity of body dysmorphic disorder (preoccupations + repetitive behaviours, distress, interference, insight, avoidance) over the past week
Length and format
12 items. Each item 0-4, clinician-rated semi-structured; summed 0-48 (clinician-rated/interview)
Language versions
Several languages incl. DE, ES, PT, FR, SV
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
Phillips, K. A., Hollander, E., Rasmussen, S. A., et al. (1997). A severity rating scale for body dysmorphic disorder (BDD-YBOCS). Psychopharmacology Bulletin, 33(1), 17-22.

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