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Clinical: specific disorders

Hoarding Rating Scale.

HRS

What it measures
Core hoarding features - clutter, difficulty discarding, acquisition, distress, impairment
Length and format
5 items. Each item 0-8; summed 0-40; cut-off ~14 indicates clinically significant hoarding (mixed-method battery)
Language versions
Several languages incl. ES, ZH, IT (HRS-SR and HRS-I forms)
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
Tolin, D. F., Frost, R. O., & Steketee, G. (2010). A brief interview for assessing compulsive hoarding: The Hoarding Rating Scale-Interview. Psychiatry Research, 178(1), 147-152.

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