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Scales and Assessment

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Scales and Assessment Tools

This page focuses on the validated scales and assessment tools most often used with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

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Common scales

  • Y-BOCS: Most common clinician-rated severity scale for OCD.
  • OCI-R: Brief self-report symptom tracking across obsession and compulsion domains.
  • CGI-S: Quick global severity measure for routine follow-up.
  • DOCS: Dimension-based self-report measure across contamination, responsibility, taboo thoughts, and symmetry.

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