Skin Picking Scale-Revised.

SPS-R

What it measures

Excoriation (skin-picking) disorder severity on two factors - symptom severity (frequency, intensity, urges, control) and impairment (avoidance, distress, interference)

Length and format

8 items. 5-pt severity Likert (0-4), total 0-32 (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

10+ langs (DE, PT, TR, FA, ES, ZH among them; approx, unverified)

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

Snorrason, I., Olafsson, R.P., Flessner, C.A., Keuthen, N.J., Franklin, M.E., & Woods, D.W. (2012). The Skin Picking Scale-Revised: factor structure and psychometric properties. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 1(2), 133-137.