Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale.
Y-BOCS
Severity of OCD independent of symptom content: time, interference, distress, resistance and control, rated separately for obsessions and compulsions; accompanied by a symptom checklist
- Provisionally grouped under
- Length and format
- 10 severity items (+ symptom checklist of ~50-60 examples). Clinician rating 0-4 per item, summed 0-40 (obsessions 0-20 + compulsions 0-20); bands subclinical to extreme (clinician-rated/interview)
- Language versions
- Many languages incl. ES, PT, FR, DE, IT, ZH, JA, TR and others; the global OCD-trial standard
- Licence
- copyrighted - author permission
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- Reference
- Goodman, W. K., Price, L. H., Rasmussen, S. A., et al. (1989). The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale. I. Development, use, and reliability. Archives of General Psychiatry, 46(11), 1006-1011.
Measures you can take in clinical: mood, anxiety and stress
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Also catalogued under
The same instrument filed in another domain of this catalogue. Our rows for it disagree about the licence, so treat the stricter reading as binding until the rights holder says otherwise.
- Y-BOCS - Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale
10 severity items (+ a separate symptom checklist).
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