Dysmorphic Concern Questionnaire.
DCQ
- What it measures
- Concern about perceived physical appearance/defects and dysmorphic preoccupation (screens for BDD and related body-image concern)
- Length and format
- 7 items. 4-point (0-3, not at all-much more than most people); summed 0-21; screening cut-offs (~9-11) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Several languages incl. DE, ES, IT, FA, PT
- 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
- Oosthuizen, P., Lambert, T., & Castle, D. J. (1998). Dysmorphic concern: Prevalence and associations with clinical variables. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 32(1), 129-132.
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