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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